Calories and macro nutrients disbalance

ankulus115
ankulus115 Posts: 3 Member
in Food and Nutrition
How is this possible? With this amount of macronutrients i should have 31 calories over, not 20 remaining.

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,553 Member
    Most likely a food you have logged has inaccurate macros. The database is user added, and inaccuracies happen.
  • ankulus115
    ankulus115 Posts: 3 Member
    edited January 13
    All food i logged have green flag on it, that means that calories and macros are correct, if i understand correctly. I also checked food i logged on Chronometar, calories are the same both on MFP and Chronometar, but what i noticed carbs are little bit higher on some food on MFP.
    Edit:I forgot about food i scanned label, i guess there inaccuracies happened.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,553 Member
    Even with green ticks, take them with a grain of salt. I found this gem the other day:

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    A food can get a green check if enough people confirm it as correct, but this entry for pumpkin has an error in the 1g entry (the other units seem ok, and it appears that the 1g entry mistakenly has the 100g nutrition) but because confirming the entry when one unit means the whole thing gets a green check, it means there's a 'confirmed' pumpkin entry which is hilariously wrong.
  • ankulus115
    ankulus115 Posts: 3 Member
    This type of mistake I also saw few times with some food.
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,342 Member
    Also realize that even on the nutrition labels the amounts are often rounded. Frankly, the margin of error ever for correct numbers is quite large, certainly larger than the number of calories you cite. Also realize that the calorie and macro amounts can vary a fair amount simply depending on the growing conditions of crops or livestock from year to year. It is an average that will generally be pretty close, but does not have the precision you seem to be thinking it does.

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