ALLOW MEASURMENTS IN GRAMS EVERYWHERE!!!

I would just add that the Food database is 99% created by crowd-sourcing and prior to 2011 or so all the foods that anyone entered were shared to the Public database by default so you'll find millions of entries that are not usable for one reason or another. They may be wrong in the nutrients, the portions, the calories. So, the members add the foods the way they want them to be measured, whether that be grams, cups, milliliters, ounces, pieces or any other allowable entry.

The best/easiest way is to add your own foods to the database. Then they will be the way you want them, and they'll be in your "My Foods" list.

What I do is use a unique-to-me descriptor in the naming of the food. That way the Search filter will pull up "my" entries every time. Takes 30 seconds to enter a new food, but worth it in my opinion.

FWIW I have a chickpeas by grams. I use only grams, too. :flowerforyou:

A filter would be great.

asd3412r5t1freasd wrote: »

Yeah I don't give any *kitten* about the copy/pasta reply at top or anything else. People probably ask this question often, because this app not having grams as constant measurement makes it an annoying *kitten* pain.

It makes no sense and if the admit or bosses or whatever fixed it they'd get more interest, AND MORE MONEY.

Or add a filter like that person said ^

This is ridiculously frustrating and destroys the usability of this app. *kitten* fix it.

GRAMS. CAN YOU HEAR ME. GRAMS.

What copy/paste reply do you mean?

You could/should post your complaint in the "Suggestions" subforum. The only people who will reply here in "Getting Started" are other regular users. STAFF DOES NOT monitor this forum - at all.


Those of us replying have found a way to make it work for us and we are using grams. And no, this is not a common complaint because there are workarounds that are fast and easy.

Try using "grams" in your Search when you're looking. That helps.

(see my screen shot below. There are dozens of chickpeas listed by grams in that, "Matching Foods," search result box.)

Grams filter on search is a good idea.

Grams as a value on all database items is a pipe dream, for sure given a crowd-sourced database, and very likely not even achievable with a curated centrally-created database.

For just one reason, most but not all US labels have grams, and a large chunk of MFP users are in the US. For sure, the majority of restaurant entries - even ones straight off the restaurant's site - don't have grams.

In those cases, the crowd (or MFP staff) can't be trotting around weighing every restaurant dish or product not labeled in grams for others' convenience. Not even theoretically achievable in the real world.

Many, many items already have grams in the drop-down. Ironically, some of the very most accurate items - loaded from the USDA food database at MFP start-up - default to cups, but have grams in the drop-down. IMU, MFP adds grams as an option nowadays if a product is labeled and initially entered in any weight measure. Grams are in the drop-down.

I weigh my food in grams whenever possible, and use grams entries. IME - 9 years worth - it's not that hard, after a short learning curve. A filter would make it even easier.

Sometimes, when I need to estimate food, I appreciate that there are other options, like inches/cm, cups, sometimes even per package or piece.

There's a design tradeoff underneath this.

A centrally created database may be more controlled, therefore potentially more accurate. (Not necessarily accurate, because products change over time, and differ between countries.) But such a database is unlikely to keep up as quickly with new products or reformulations, so users will need to fully enter more foods themselves as private foods.

A crowd-sourced database like MFP's is likely to be more comprehensive, but with less reliable accuracy. We need to search more carefully at first, but add items less often. Good entries for items logged recently will stay in our recent/frequent foods, and come up first on search, defaulting to the units we last used. (As someone else noted, you can create all your own entries, if you wish: They'll be saved in My Foods in MFP, entered just the way you like them.)

If you don't like MFP's design choice, there are logging apps out there with stronger curation. They might make you happier.

Complaining it about it here is profitless. You're just talking to other MFP users with no more power than you have. MFP staff don't read every Community post in every area. That would be huge effort, little benefit.

If you have ideas or complaints about MFP, post them in Feature Suggestions. The staff reads that.

If we're talking about packaged/manufactured food (e.g., bread, cold cereal, canned soup, frozen burrito), I have the package I got the food out of so that I can compare the label to the database entry to be sure it's accurate. I'll use an accurate entry where the user selected the volume measure rather than one where they used grams but the calories and a few other macros/micros I care about are wrong

I can easily use the info on the label (e.g.: serving size 1/2 cup (134 grams)) to calculate how many servings I had in grams.

It really is crazy that this isnt a feature. I know MFP is based in the US, which prefers impereal measurements, but Nutrition Facts are ALWAYS determined in metric.

It really should look like this:

Wow...what a tempest in a teapot. Such passion for something so trivial in the grand scheme of things.

asd3412r5t1freasd wrote: »

Yeah I don't give any *kitten* about the copy/pasta reply at top or anything else. People probably ask this question often, because this app not having grams as constant measurement makes it an annoying *kitten* pain.

It makes no sense and if the admit or bosses or whatever fixed it they'd get more interest, AND MORE MONEY.

Or add a filter like that person said ^

This is ridiculously frustrating and destroys the usability of this app. *kitten* fix it.

GRAMS. CAN YOU HEAR ME. GRAMS.

Or you could just do math. Ounces to grams. Imperial to metric .

1 ounce =28.35 grams

Or input own foods with grams option.

Also - just checked my own food diary. Everything I have is grams… 🤷‍♀️ every input I have a grams option.. every single food. Am I seeing a different version?