Tue, Sep-24-02, 20:00
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Senior Member
Posts: 271
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Plan: none right now
Stats: //
BF:
Progress: 17%
Location: USA
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Calculating Nutrients (Fat)
Both the USDA db and the fitday.com db list for each food you look up, saturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, and then a 'total' for the fat.
Neither add up. The total is always more than the three added together. So far it seems to be a little more in the usda than the fitday db, but in both cases, even if I 'round up' the numbers to the last place they provide, it still doesn't come out to the same # as the total.
Is there some OTHER kind(s) of fat that is in there but not broken out, so it shows up in the total above and beyond the sum of those three? I had made that a calculated column in my spreadsheet, just to save a little typing, but it never comes out to the same 'total' fat# as the db source.
Anybody have a clue?
Thanks tons.
PJ
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