Tracking
I'm finding it very difficult to accurately track. You type a food and get at least 5, 10+ results for the same food with varying information. I've been spending hours creating my own personal 'my food's' list so I know it's accurate but I'm truly interested to know how others navigate.
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I learned to do the same thing you’re doing: make a ‘My Foods’ list of things I like and recipes Ive created. I hardly ever look at the general ‘Foods’ listing, unless it’s an entirely new item.
also, if you have the premium version of the app, you can scan the code bars on food packaging and import directly into My Foods. If I remember correctly, select ‘Foods’ from the column to the left and look across the top of the screen. About halfway (?) across, you’ll see ‘Scan.’ Tap that and your phone can scan the bar code. It takes a little getting use to so you don’t jiggle the phone and get a blurry image. I’ve found this to be very helpful in directly ‘linking’ what I’m holding in my hand to what’s in My Foods.
hope this helps
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We do our best to keep our database as accurate as possible and stand behind the accuracy of all of our Common Foods, which have been verified by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the University of Minnesota (NCCDB).
Our branded and restaurant foods are licensed from a number of sources. Because these types of foods change frequently, we are sometimes left with outdated information. We are working each day to improve the database, but some foods may not be found or have inaccuracies.
The third source for foods/recipes in the database are User Contributions. As the name suggests, these are foods shared by the Carb Manager community and therefore have not been verified. We've found that Carb Manager users are prolific sharers! So we plan to start reviewing user-submitted error reports and making verified corrections based on these reports later this year.
When users scan the UPC barcodes of food items, the app first searches our main database, and if the item is not found, it then looks to Nutritionix.com, and finally, it will pull from user submissions. If there are no results found, the user is given the opportunity to add the item as a custom food, and they can share it to the database.
All branded foods and user contributions include the ability to report errors, and those error reports are presented in the nutrition summary.
It's a great help if you report food errors. To do so, open the food, then tap the ⋮ button in the top right corner and select Report Error. In the fields that appear, you can enter the corrected nutrition information. Other users will then see that the food item has been reported as inaccurate, and they will be able to view the edits and choose to log the corrected food.
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Carb Manager this wasn’t my question, but I appreciate your explanation - that helps a lot. Thanks!
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Carb Manager how do we know which entries are the ones verified by usda or nccdb? I have also scanned items and found nutrition did not match label but I don't think that's avoidable because companies update their nutrituon but do not update the upc code. Just something that other users may want to be aware of and double check against label even after scanning.