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Lucy,
Starch is not the same as fibre. I am not sure of an exact definition but I think you don't want to eat too much of it (if you have a glutinous rice and drain it after cooking, the resulting white liquid is starch). I think a high starch diet makes it difficult to lose weight.
Yvonne
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Well say Yvonne! I'd love there to be more foods that are easily recognisable! I did wonder about the %RDAs... and another question maybe someone can answer, on all our food packaging we have starch listed under carbohydrates along with sugar, and this is never asked for in entering values? Instead fibre seems to come under carbs... does starch somehow count as fibre or am I missing something?!
Cheers
Lucy
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Thanks Coach Jen,
I'll sort through my list and email some of them to you in a couple of days.
Yvonne
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CRYSTALQUEEN
9/8/06 8:39 P
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| Something else that comes to mind...staff have access to our trackers etc, so could you not take things from our user-entered foods? If you need permissions to do so, I have no objections to mine being used. My data all comes off the packaging, so it's as acurate as the makers are honest.
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CRYSTALQUEEN
9/8/06 8:37 P
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It was useful in the past that we could opt to have a product entered into the database. Was this added automatically, or was it flagged for a staff member to manually enter?
I just wondered if it was automated whether it could be re-instated. That way, we would be giving back something, contributing to a global nutritional database.
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SPORTY-SANGI
9/8/06 6:17 A
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I agree too!
Having lived in the Uk and still eating "British food" It would be really good.
I just happen to see a set of measurement "cups" which I bought straight away. Thats help. At least I know now what a cup is etc.
But not everyone has them!
Can`t wait for the use change to come.
Thanks! great idea.
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SPARK_COACH_JEN
9/7/06 10:07 A
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Yvonne,
Thanks for your feedback! If you'd like to send me some of the most popular UK foods that you think would be helpful to add to the database, we can work on doing that. Maybe if you can send me 20 or so now, the person who helps us with that can enter those, and then we can work on the next batch. I don't think we'll be able to enter 800 items, but at least maybe it will help a little. If you've got all of the nutritional info handy and could send that, it would speed the process along. But if it's not in a format that you could easily copy, we can look it up.
Thanks!
Coach Jen
jen@sparkpeople.com
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I have been a member of SP for about a year now and I have found it to be REALLY helpful in losing weight. When I first joined there weren't that many members from outside the USA, and I was only one of about a dozen or so (that I could find) UK members. Over the last few months many more people from the UK have joined and there is quite a large community now (although I am not sure of the exact numbers).
Now to my point:
Because this site is set up for the American market, all the food products are American - which is okay when it is a 'basic' item (mostly) but not when you come to adding branded (or supermarket own brands) or specific food products as I can't get American food products in the UK. I therefore tend to manually enter quite a lot of foods and now have nearly 800 items in my personal database. I am sure there are other members from the UK with personal food databases of a similar size so I am wondering if it would be feasible to create a ‘UK Foods’ database as some way of a) sharing this information that members have gathered and b) prevent duplicate entries (and hence using more space) in personal food databases.
On a related topic, the Recommended Daily Amount (RDA) percentages for the UK are different that they are in the USA, so would it possible to enter the vitamin values in grams (or micrograms) instead of percentages. Even if a UK food product contains the RDA %age of something I almost never enter it as it is not comparable to the US values.
Sorry, I have rambled on a bit.
Yvonne
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