Chicken dish resulting in 0 protein?

TSMcK1000
TSMcK1000 Posts: 2
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I submitted what I had for lunch today, a chicken and brown rice homemade dish and it netted out 0 grams of protein? How is that possible? Chicken, no protein?

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  • Kara_xxx
    Kara_xxx Posts: 635 Member
    Some people enter bits into the database and enter calories only and not the macros. You must have picked one of 'those' chickens. Drives me mad, you have to double check the nutritional data every time cos so many folk make incomplete entried or enter the wrong data for a food.
  • vypeters
    vypeters Posts: 475 Member
    Is it a ready made dish? If so, then entry you selected was not completely filled out. Was it a recipe of yours? If so, look at the nutrition information on the chicken you selected. Sometimes (I know not why) folks enter things and just put in the calories and not all the nutrition.

    But be assured, if it has chicken, it has protein. Something's wrong with the nutrition facts on the foods you chose.
  • TSMcK1000
    TSMcK1000 Posts: 2
    Yeah, I selected a different chicken/rice dish (homemade) and it netted out a better result! 16 big g's of protein!
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Welcome to the food database. Remember, the majority of items are user-submitted...
  • KrystleKiri
    KrystleKiri Posts: 135
    Some people enter bits into the database and enter calories only and not the macros. You must have picked one of 'those' chickens. Drives me mad, you have to double check the nutritional data every time cos so many folk make incomplete entried or enter the wrong data for a food.

    exactly. try to pick ones that have confirmations!
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    On the same note, the other day I could not figure out why my saturated fat was so high. Turns out the wine option I chose has 5g of saturated fat! I also notice a lot of entries with sodium missing and I know this is something a lot of people track, so watch out for that.
  • DPernet
    DPernet Posts: 481 Member
    Even better, Try to pick ones that have no * in front of them
  • SomeoneSomeplace
    SomeoneSomeplace Posts: 1,094 Member
    I am really anal but personally if I make my own meal I enter everything individually.

    If I make my own recipes I track everything I put in. I don't use the whole dish. I literally read the nutrition for everything. So if I used a breast of chicken I look at the calories for that, put it in my food diary, then I'd add the calories for the brown rice, the oil I cook the chicken in, the sauce I put on it etc...

    Once you start cooking with things more you'll know off hand how many calories things have and it won't be very difficult.

    You'll start to get a feel for how many calories things have so even when you go out to a non-chain place or someones hose you'll be able to use the entries to make rather accurate guesses as to how many calories you actually consumed.

    But I try to stick to ones with a lot of confirmations if I'm unsure.
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    Welcome to the food database. Remember, the majority of items are user-submitted...

    And as reliable as wikipedia.
  • StarkLark
    StarkLark Posts: 476 Member
    Welcome to the food database. Remember, the majority of items are user-submitted...

    And as reliable as wikipedia.
    Truth... I had someone post in my news feed the other day and he was very upset that the 16 cherry tomatoes he had eaten netted him 350ish calories. He "HAD NO IDEA TOMATOES HAD SO MANY CALORIES"!!!!!

    Judging incorrect or poor food database entries get easier and easier with experience, and it sounds like the OP is making some good progress in this respect :drinker:
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Welcome to the food database. Remember, the majority of items are user-submitted...

    And as reliable as wikipedia.

    This is not fair to wikipedia....
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