Food database: app prompt for questionable input
When a user submits nutrition information for a new item, the app should prompt the user if some inputs are obviously wrong.
For example, someone tries to submit a ramen dish with 200,000 mg of sodium - obviously incorrect. The app prompts the user to confirm that amount is correct.
I’ve found several foods in the database with this error, sodium specifically. Then I need to dig through my history to find the incorrect entries. Attached is a picture after I already adjusted some entries - there are so many it doesn’t seem worth it to me to go back through.
A prompt upon entry would address the root cause and limit this kind of error.
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24 Jun, '22
AnotherOldfArtAgreed, especially on the sodium front. My data is useless because of the multiple salt/sodium errors in the system.
A further problem with this is that if a food is entered, receives the "confirm" prompt when it finds an error, and confirms it, that food can't be edited without correcting the "error", even if it is correct. I'm trying to add units to oat fibre for which I created the food. Because the calories and carbohydrates don't reconcile, due to it being primarily insoluble fibre, the only way I can add serving sizes is by re-entering the food in its entirety.