fitday vs food labels

[brittn3yf88]

so im putting food into fitday and they are somewhat different than the labels on the food. should i use the fitday data or the food label data?

[CalicoPrairie]

Re: fitday vs food labels

I've been told that Fitday is more accurate, so I'd use that.

[liv]

Re: fitday vs food labels

It depends somewhat on what kind of food it is and very the divergence is. Labels are generally fairly accurate except when it comes to the small numbers - such as how much carb in cheese. Here label will say zero because it is less than 0.5 for the serving size they list but we have to count it as one according to the book so we make a custom entry for that. Or other things with sugars - the label will not reflect the small stuff but we still need to count it and fitday will have that. Like eggs

On the other hand if it is a processed item fitday may not know exactly what is in the item. So here I often make a custum entry (for a thing like sausage)

[atkinsgal08]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Liv is correct.

What are the items, exactly? That would help us to help you with an accurate answer.

[brittn3yf88]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Like chicken breast or any other packaged products. They have labels but I thought we were to use what's in fitday. I'm going to start just using what's on the labels and making custom items unless there isn't a label because fitday makes it seem like I'm eating more calories, carbs, protein, and fat than i really am

[liv]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Are you buying injected chicken? You should really avoid those. If the chicken has a list of ingredients - don't buy it.

[brittn3yf88]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Are you buying injected chicken? You should really avoid those. If the chicken has a list of ingredients - don't buy it.

Its raw chicken. i dont know the brand off hand but its organic...no injections, no hormones, no nothing.

[liv]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Then it is all good. So what was the discrepancy between fitday and the label?

I find it useful to use fitday's entries for the reason that fitday counts up your nutrients too (like iron, magnesium etc) and I like to keep an eye on those. Hard to get those correct when you do custom entries

[brittn3yf88]

Re: fitday vs food labels

not a big discrepancy more like a 5-10 calorie difference. Maybe im being too technical about it, i do get that way sometimes lol

[liv]

Re: fitday vs food labels

that should not be an issue at all.
Up to you though

[atkinsgal08]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Like chicken breast or any other packaged products. They have labels but I thought we were to use what's in fitday. I'm going to start just using what's on the labels and making custom items unless there isn't a label because fitday makes it seem like I'm eating more calories, carbs, protein, and fat than i really am

I think you're reinventing the wheel.

If by "packaged", you mean raw chicken, then just use the Fitday entry for raw.

You should always enter things "raw" when you can, especially if that's what you started with.

[brittn3yf88]

Re: fitday vs food labels

Yea I meant raw chicken sorry

[atkinsgal08]

Re: fitday vs food labels

You shouldn't need to create a custom food entry for that!