no iron in steak!

A ton of stuff is not correct on the site. Do yourself a favor and buy a book to double check. The Complete Book of Food Counts is chap and at most book stores or Amazon.com.

I would be willing to guess at least 80% of the sodium counts are wrong.

A lot of the DB is user submitted and most dieters aren't paying attention to nutrients they're just looking at calories and maybe fat/carb/protein. So when they enter in something new, they skip everything but what they care about.

If you use their DB entry later, you'll get the same limited info.

If you use your phone to enter in meals, the UPC scanner is very useful at getting the exact item you want, and Ive seen that most if not of those lookups have all of the nutritional info.

I agree, don't rely on the MFP counter, at least not stuff people put in, I always compare it to my actual product info before I'll use a member DB entry, the MFP standards I trust though...I think some people make up calorie amounts sometimes too, make them more or usually less than what the products really are...

Meg

I've started double checking everything, too. Is there a way for us to mark inaccurate things to clean up the database?

When adding an item to your food diary by searching the database, a box pops up to the right if you click on an item from the list. Under the heading there is a little 'nutritional info' link that will open up a box with, obviously-- nutritional data. On the right side of that box you can confirm whether or not the data is accurate.