I was looking at the labels for 1% or 2% cottage cheese and the carbs are all higher, cal lower. So I looked on fitday and the counts are loooow for 1% and 2%. And the serving size is one cup, not 1/2 cup. AND 4% isnt even in there. I wonder why? Ive noticed Friendship brand stuff has lower counts too. I looooove cottage cheese. I would eat nothing but cottage cheese all day. Hehe

You can make a custom food item using one from the database as a template. That's how I did my kamut bread. I loaded up a slice of multigrain, changed the macronutrient (protein, fat, carb, fibre) to numbers from the label, and assumed (without having real data) all the micronutrients would be the same.

I did the same for my milk. Here in Quebec the milk has more vitamin D added. On the first days when my reports kept showing me I was low in vitamin D I thought it was odd since I was convince milk was giving me all the vitamin D I should want.

It’s easy, you just find the food that looks most like the one you want to enter and click the “Customize this food” button. It’s so much easier then entering a whole recipe.

But, your question was: why? I don’t know. Obviously, Fitday had its number done on a particular brand and you are not eating it. That’s why it is so important to customize your food.