January Pink Food Thread

[Out of the Blue]

and when i put it in myfitnesspal it states im not eating hardly any sodium, and that theres none in the bagels ?

I think the conversions in MFP are different b/c it's U.S. based and we go by mg so I think things get added in incorrectly...

Surgena are you around? I think you're on MFP too, right? Could you help LMN7 w/this? I'm in the U.S. and I'm not sure of U.K. conversions so I don't want to lead anyone astray...

[GeCon]

its the same ones yes ok im lost it states on there per 100g of bagel = 0.35g sodium ?

Yes, we are looking at the same ones. Per 100g they contain 0.35g sodium, which is 350mg. If you look in the third line of the description it tells you the values per bagel:

1 bagel cal 228, fat 7.9, sat fat 0.8g, salt 0.61g, total sugars 3.6g.

[Out of the Blue]

I found with sodium that a lot of entries on myfitnesspal are incorrect due to other members submitting the details and making mistakes when inputting the sodium. I had to change quite a few items due to this. Basically the packs list sodium in grams, i.e. 0.1g. Myfitnesspal, however, lists sodium in mg. So a lot of times people input the sodium content as 0.1, but don't realise that it is asking for mg not g, in which case it should be 100mg. Therefore in this example the item would show no sodium content when it has in fact 100mg, which is 1/10 of your daily allowance. Hope this makes sense.

Also some people only enter the information from the front of the pack and not the detailed nutritional information from the back of the packs, which doesn't list sodium, but only salt and salt isn't a possible entry on myfitnesspal.

Thx, GeCon...I think I was posting at the same time. This is exactly the info I was looking for to give LMN7 but wasn't sure how to explain it.

[littlemissnaughty7]

oh pooh ok thanks guys il bare this in mind now, so is that the whole website then it lists in mg, or is it just sodium thats in mg ?

[GeCon]

oh pooh ok thanks guys il bare this in mind now, so is that the whole website then it lists in mg, or is it just sodium thats in mg ?

Cholesterol, sodium and potassium only, all the others are in g. Although the potassium values are even more unreliable as companies do not have to declare them on the packs at all.

You can always update the info held on MFP for the items you use. That's what I do. I double-check if they are already on there and update them if required.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ohhhhhhhh im so stuck now i thought i had this all sorted, is there a website that lists sodium in g's not mg's ?

[littlemissnaughty7]

how do i do this gecon hun ?

[GeCon]

LMN, it's not that bad. You will probably find that you will be using a lot of the items on a regular basis, so updating them once pays off because then you know they are correct.

In order to get the sodium content in mg rather than g as listed on the pack, all you need to do is multiply the g by 1000. So if you have 0.35g sodium per 100g, multiplying it by 1000 gives you 350mg per 100g.

Or you can just put "0.35g in mg" into google, which will do the work for you when you hit enter.

how do i do this gecon hun ?

As for updating the details: You start by adding an item to your day. When all the results show up, click on the one you want and on the right side under the name, there is a link to the nutritional info. Click on it to confirm the details held. If you are not happy with them, click on No after "Is this data accurate?", which will then open the page for you to amend details. All you have to do then is save it.

[littlemissnaughty7]

ok hun thanks very much, what cheese has the lowest sodium in does anyone know ?

[littlemissnaughty7]

none of the foods i was going to eat seem to have the potassium listed, how do i find this out ? , sorry for all the questions,