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See ingredients of logged foods

sarahrain4075
sarahrain4075 Posts: 8 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas
Sometimes i want to log a whole meal, that people generally cook differently
It eould be extremely practical if we can see the ingredients in the meals we log, and change them/change the ingredient quantities. That would be more precise.
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,671 Member
    I'm not sure what you mean, do you mean the ingredients in the recipes someone else has created? Or going to the food database and searching, say "spaghetti bolognaise" and being able to see the ingredients?

    If the former, people have been asking for the functionality to share recipes for quite some time. If the latter, MFP has no idea what the ingredients are, the food could have been created from a label, or a restaurant menu, or someone might have added it from a recipe, but not actually created the recipe (like they made the recipe from a website that had nutritional info and just created a food with that nutritional info)
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,987 Member
    I'm also not sure what you would like to be able to do.
    But if you want to save combinations of ingredients, you can already do that by saving them as a Meal. You can then log it in your diary at a later date and adjust the amounts of the individual ingredients as needed for that single occasion, or adjust the base meal itself if needed.
    Meals are logged in your diary ad individual ingredients rather than a single line (unlike recipes).
  • sarahrain4075
    sarahrain4075 Posts: 8 Member
    Yes I'm talking about the recipes someone else has created. It would be very practical to see the ingredients they entered in the recipe and their quantities, so whenever we log in the recipe we can know for sure how much nutrients there are. And maybe adjust them to the way we made the recipe.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,671 Member
    sarahrain4075 wrote: »
    Yes I'm talking about the recipes someone else has created. It would be very practical to see the ingredients they entered in the recipe and their quantities, so whenever we log in the recipe we can know for sure how much nutrients there are. And maybe adjust them to the way we made the recipe.

    Yeah, that would be a really good feature, people have been asking for it for a while. Recipe sharing would be so handy

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