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Foods I Add to Database

HeyJudii
HeyJudii Posts: 264 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
If I add a food to the database, and check the box to let others use it, can they also change the nutritional info?
I'd hate to go to all the trouble of creating it based on what the package in my hand says, only to have someone change it, because their older package says something else.

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  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    edited June 2018
    They can change the info yes. This is why I add all my foods to my food diary manually and don't share with the database. Plus people don't always add foods to the database accurately or edit accurately
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,474 Member
    Yeah, I don't share either.

    In the early days of MFP when they were trying to build a crowd-sourced database every entry was "shared" by default unless I made a click to say, "No." Now they have it set to not share unless you click the "Share" thing.
  • HeyJudii
    HeyJudii Posts: 264 Member
    Great :/
    And, once shared, there is no way to unshare it.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,474 Member
    HeyJudii wrote: »
    Great :/
    And, once shared, there is no way to unshare it.

    Well, just enter another version of it. You can put some special identifying syntax in your entries so you can find the corrected/unshared ones. That's what I do.

  • fr33sia12
    fr33sia12 Posts: 1,258 Member
    HeyJudii wrote: »
    Great :/
    And, once shared, there is no way to unshare it.

    Yeh when I realised this I just made a new account and started again adding all the foods manually to my own private list
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