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| Karen (Cronometer) Aug 20, 2021, 10:31 CDT: We have different data sources available that determines the availability of nutrients for each food. There are lab analyzed foods from sources like NCCDB and USDA. These include more complete nutrient profiles for foods compared with brand name sources like ESHA, CRDB, Nutritionix and UPC. The nutrition data for these foods come from the manufacturer reported on the nutrition label. Branded products oftentimes don't list full nutrient profiles on their nutrition labels. The best way to get the most nutrition information is to use our most comprehensive database - the NCCDB. By performing text-based searches when adding foods, most whole foods can be found from the NCCDB which lists many, many more vitamins and minerals in their nutrient profiles. I suggest taking a look at this blog as it should help you navigate Cronometer to it's fullest capabilities to enable you to obtain more accurate information on both macro and micronutrients. I hope this helps! Karen theyre off on many things, i cant remember what else but i think their numbers for folate and some b vitamins are off, depending on food. I dont think they had the right numbers for milk, nor orange juice nor coconut water. coconut water is like 1.7mg manganese per 16oz or something and cronometer doesnt show it. it seems to be based on a search engine of some kind which maybe like google searches the food product to search nutrition stats. the method they use, doesn't take into account images. the manganese and other vitamin content of milk, coconut water etc is listed on the nutrition labels for products which are images. cronometer i think only detects things that are in writing. so if theres a website which in writing, mentions milk contains 20mcg folate per cup or whatever itll pick it up, but if its an image it wont Are you wondering where the data comes from? We enter brand name product data manually from photos of the package label. Foods entered this was are labelled CRDB in the food search. Some foods are provided by outside sources, like ESHA and Food Data Central and the data also comes from the nutrition label on packages of food. Best, Karen Cronometer shows 0 zinc intake: this one sounds like the person is adding a brand name product to their diary. Manufacturers to don't report zinc content of their products. However, if you add a generic version from NCCDB we do include the amount of zinc in foods, as Seven pointed out in this thread. I'm not quite sure I understand what the last comment is about. Do you have any examples of foods and I could dig in a little deeper. It could be they are confusing the %DV shown on the package label with their % nutrient targets - that's a common misunderstanding. We also have a process to correct food items that you find are out of date. Having an accurate and curated database is what sets us apart from other nutrition trackers, so we'll want to get this fixed quickly! |