Food Database. UK foods ONLY

fredbarrett090264 · June 2019

Help. Based in UK. Can you select UK based foods and supermarkets only please??

Pearl4686 · June 2019

As far as I know, no.
But if you type the shop in the search bar, it should come up.
For example 'Tesco bread' etc
Hope that helps

Shaggers999 · November 2019

I've only been on the app 3 days and this already infuriating me - why ask where I am and then default to foods from the US, and US measures?

BarbaraHelen2013 · November 2019

Also in the U.K. and I do as Pearl says above. I always preface the search with the name of the Supermarket if it’s a fresh item or a store brand product. I never just search a generic item, always by brand or producer.

Mostly that works well.

LyndaBSS · November 2019

Shaggers999 wrote: »

I've only been on the app 3 days and this already infuriating me - why ask where I am and then default to foods from the US, and US measures?

Perhaps because it’s an American based company.

cmriverside · November 2019

The foods in the database are entered by users. You can enter your own foods. If the ones you want are not in the database, then no one has entered them yet. All whole foods (like eggs, butter, olive oil, almonds, beef, oats, broccoli, blueberries etc.) are all in there and they are the same for all countries, so find what you need and use them.

It's not an easy process for any of us at first but once you find them one time and use them they will then appear in your Recent or Frequent foods list, so you really only have to look them up once...until you get to over 100 foods - which is the limit on the Recent foods list, then you may find entering your own entries to be beneficial. That's what I did. Entering them into the database puts them forevermore in my MY FOODS personal list.

lynn_glenmont · November 2019

Shaggers999 wrote: »

I've only been on the app 3 days and this already infuriating me - why ask where I am and then default to foods from the US, and US measures?

The database is largely crowd-sourced by users. I would guess users are disproportionately in the U.S. It's not "defaulting" to anything. You get the results that match the search string you enter.

RelCanonical · November 2019

Shaggers999 wrote: »

I've only been on the app 3 days and this already infuriating me - why ask where I am and then default to foods from the US, and US measures?

The amount of random Tesco foods I stuck in my food list to estimate things does not jive with this assumption.

TheMrWobbly · November 2019

The app also learns what products you have amended or added and moves them up the list.

thrashscara · November 2019

I used the barcode scanner for all packaged foods, or enter in manually. Haven't found anything I couldn't log yet!

kshama2001 · November 2019

Heck, I'm in the US and I avoid US crowd-sourced entries as much as possible. Fortunately, since I eat mostly whole foods, I look for the admin-created entries that come from the USDA database.

Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries with sufficient upvotes and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database (no upvotes needed). To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.

Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.

For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)

cwolfman13 · November 2019

Shaggers999 wrote: »

I've only been on the app 3 days and this already infuriating me - why ask where I am and then default to foods from the US, and US measures?

It's not defaulting to anything. It's just one big database and the vast majority of entries are crowd sourced by users. Given the size of the U.S. and that it is a U.S. based company, an overwhelming proportion of users are in the U.S.

Food Database. UK foods ONLY

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