Sport Calorie errors

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kittyhartman26

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Today I was putting in the nutrition facts for some frozen spinach into Fitday and I put them in exactly how they were on the bag. After doing so I got a error message from Fitday saying the calories were off, there should only be 16 calories per cup. The bag says 30.

Any idea who's right?
 
fitday figures calories by the fat, carbs, protein and alcohol that a product contains. i've never seen it error about the serving size being incorrect, and I have a long list of custom foods.

was fitday's built in spinach not good enough? i mean, spinach is spinach, unless its been covered in sauce or somethign to alter its natural calorie count.

and looking at fitday's frozen spinach, boiled, no fat added in cooking, I get 1cup containing 50 calories.
 
I get that message very often while entering in custom foods. Usually, I have to lower the alcohol 1g at a time until the message goes away. This irritates me, as I would prefer the info to be accurate.

I believe they must use a different equation than what is standard for labels, because I find that they often clash.
 
I just don't like fitday. They are like cheap body fat analyzers, its close but nothing to gauge by. Your better served by just reading and adding things up yourself. Its what I do and then i log my results into crosstrainer . Way more accurate, and yeah costs a little money but in my opinion well worth it. There is a 30 day free trial, should check it out.
 
kittyhartman26 said:
Today I was putting in the nutrition facts for some frozen spinach into Fitday and I put them in exactly how they were on the bag. After doing so I got a error message from Fitday saying the calories were off, there should only be 16 calories per cup. The bag says 30.

Any idea who's right?
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Tell us the nutritional information along with the calories and we'll tell you whose right :)

~Nicole
 
Fitday's nutrition math has never been wrong for my custom foods.
4 calories per gram of protein
4 cals per gram of carbohydrate
7 cals per gram of alcohol
9 cals per gram of fat

my guess, is your nutrition label is rounding macros down, so they round the calorie count down too, and fitday sees the discrepancy and complains.
 
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