Fix the incorrect food item with the proper CALORIES associated to the particular food product.

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nicolettege070
nicolettege070 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition

Please look into updating specific foods with their correct, proper listed calories as on the Nutrition panel of the product. For example, I track Lucerne Cottage Cheese that is specified 80 calories on the physical store bought container from my local grocery store. On the other hand, FitnessPal displays all of their Lucerne brand Cottage Cheeses as 90 calories. I found one listed with the correct amount and weirdly labeled LF for low fat I assume🤷‍♀️. There’s many other items incorrectly listed on this app similar to the food item I’m describing. 

If the Premium membership is only required for this fix as I’d be allowed to physically scan the item,

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then I understand, but if otherwise this should be looked into as it’s annoying and frustrating when trying to log my food products from my local grocery store.

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,202 Member

    Premium won't solve the problem - scanning barcodes give you a single result rather than several to choose from, but that single one isn't necessarily correct. The food database is mostly crowdsourced, which means there are many wrong and incomplete entries. So you need to check the entries you use.

    If you have the time and energy, you could report incorrect entries here: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10936610/report-food-data-inaccuracies#latest

  • LiveOnceBeHappy
    LiveOnceBeHappy Posts: 477 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48655979#Comment_48655979

    It would be great if the multitudes of entries could be deleted, especially when they are no longer correct. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the fact that food manufacturers can change their products and their serving sizes (think shrinkflation).

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,879 Member
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48659733#Comment_48659733

    Figuring out which are no longer correct is also complicated. The same product under the same name may be sold in different countries with different ingredient lists/proportions or nutrient values (even for an identical formulation) because of country-specific food regulations. This is an international site.

    The implication is that multiple disagreeing entries can all be correct, just in different countries. To fix that, MFP would somehow need to figure out what all the countries are where that food may be sold, and keep any entry that was right in any country . . . or that had been recently right, because multiple formulations of the same product will exist in just one country until everyone uses up the supply in their pantry, after the stores have sold all of the old formulation besides.

    Is it possible? Not sure. Is it practical? I have my doubts. Sure, it would be nice.

    But once I check out a food and select a valid entry, it's going to stay in my recent/frequent foods list and come up first when I go to log foods. Cutting back the database to just concurrently-correct-somewhere and recently-correct-somewhere entries wouldn't save me a huge bundle of time. I'd just have fewer candidate entries to consider the first time I log the food. There would still be multiple entries for quite a few things, and I'd still have to find the one that matches the label in my hand.

    I agree that the database could be better. I also see MFP gradually chipping away at improving it. But it's a complicated task, more so than it might seem on the surface.

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