green beans wrong in fitday??
 

Hi,
if you search for green beans, (one of the lowest calorie foods....steamed); it shows:

cooked; 1 cup; 83 calories
raw; 1 cup; 34

this can't be right!?:confused:

is there a place to report this to get corrected?

no wonder i'm so hungry!:rolleyes:

Hi there...for some reason, FitDay seems to default to preparation of veggies with fat when you just use the search feature. Go to Browse, select vegetables, etc., find green beans, and scroll down to "from fresh, frozen, whichever, prepared without fat." You should get a much more reasonable number. It's a pain, but at least it's accurate!

thanks! I'll go check that out now;
so all the journals I've been doing are all wrong for fresh veggies?

Hopefully someone from peoplefit is listening! and will fix this OR add the correct description?:rolleyes:

nope! i guess that didn't fix it. it still shows 76 cal. for one cup :confused:
and i don't think it's that high

(fresh; no sauce)

How exactly are you preparing them? Are they cooked? I just found green beans, from fresh, prepared without fat for 43 calories per cup using the browse feature.

http://www.fitday.com/fitness/FoodVi...dds2-f75204991

Do you have a food scale? I've found it easier to accurately calculate when I'm weighing vs measuring my food. I think I picked up mine at Wal-Mart for less than $20. I made fresh green beans last sunday and once weighed out only had like 20something calories in my portion. And it was a fairly large portion. Just something else to consider

cjohnson:
i found that too; but it must be wrong because there's no way 1 cup of green beans (steamed; no sauce; nothing) can have 370.5 mg sodium and 9.8 mg of carbs and 2.3 g protein!:rolleyes:

Your best bet, then, is probably to enter information you think is accurate as a custom food.

You may want to post this down in the Feedback and Support thread; it would be more likely to come to the attention of the powers that be at FitDay.

I agree, in theory, that's SHOULD be the solution. BUT, going by past experience (I've emailed them several times for several different things; at several different email 'contact us' email addresses); and one of 2 things happens:

1. it gets completely ignored; even when sent twice:mad:
2. I get inconsistent/inaccurate answers:confused:

I'm not sure there really ARE any 'powers that be'! :confused:

whenever I have a doubt, I just enter the nutritional info from a label and make it a custom food.

Maybe a reason for the difference, is when you cook green beans they soften and you can get a WHOLE LOT MORE in a cup measure! At least that is what I find with cooked beans, carrots, etc. Softer food measures differently. So your best bet if you are using fresh food is scroll down that list of food and find how your food is prepared among the listing... such as, Green Beans, cooked, from Frozen, boiled, drained without salt. I happen to like the varied listings, especially when I am eating food that someone else has prepared. I can get a view of how the rest of the world eats... and how to accurately log that food.

thanks!

does anyone happen to have any 'canned green beans' around they can tell me the info? thanks! :rolleyes:

Green Beans
 

Get the info from the USDA data base and enter it as a custom food.

From the bodybuilding forums I learned green beans is a very clean food. A 1 cup serving is suppose to be 33 calories as is pretty much any other green vegetable cooked in just water such as broccoli. I noticed it was off on green beans too so I would just enter it as a custom food. I'm adding a lot of my own custom foods because I find the #s are very different in Fitday from the yogurt and milk I use for instance. Same thing with my whey protein powder now that I think about it. There's going to be variations based on brands so if you might as well enter in your own info if you use the same thing everyday.

I agree with Tori. I have a kitchen scale and I measure everything by weight. I think it's more accurate that way. The amount in a cup can vary by how tightly or loosely you cram it in there, but an oz is an oz is an oz. I measure how many ounces or grams I want and then cook it. If it is a steamed vegetable there should be no additional calories, even though the weight might be different after cooking. If I saute or fry I add the oil or butter as a separate item. Hope this helps.