Adding Ingredients to the database

Posts: 4
10/9/10 12:52 P

Thank you so much! I see that they aren't added to the database right away, but that's ok. I hadn't created a spark page, I only used the recipe calculator on sparkrecipes.com.

Thanks again!

Posts: 11,780
10/9/10 12:39 P

you need to share them from your My Nutrition page, not the recipe calculator.

Posts: 4
10/9/10 12:06 P

Thanks for all the replies! Not sure what I'm doing wrong. :( If I search under "Search Manually Entered Foods" I can find it, and of course it's in the dropdown shown in the image linked. But I can't find any sharing option. I see all the ingredients with a * at the start and they're user submitted, just not mine haha.

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park-Mesquite.jpg

I also tried to add it again (with a slightly different name) to see if there was a sharing option when your typing up a new ingredient, but likewise no luck finding the sharing option.

Thanks again for all the help!


Edited by: NSRBRAKE at: 10/9/2010 (12:08)

Posts: 11,780
10/9/10 11:06 A

on the Add A Food popup, select favourites, then at the side is a button to "Share Manually Entered Foods"

click that and tick the boxes you want to share.

Posts: 4
10/9/10 7:50 A

I have no problem putting in the info for items not already listed, but I'm looking to add them into the ingredient database on spark so that people I know or anyone else will find it in the list. As far as I can tell the ingredients I put in are only visible and usable by me on my account. So I'm wondering if there's a submission process to have user submitted ingredients added to the big list.

Posts: 343
10/8/10 6:35 P

I tend to add just about everything myself due to inaccuracies of many of the items listed... get home from the store - add the new foods in (kinda fun doing it actually) - then when I throw something together I have all the ingredients already there to easy add to any recipe

Posts: 11,780
10/8/10 4:33 P

nutritiondata.self.com/

this website has lots of stuff listed, I have imported lots from here.

Posts: 4
10/8/10 11:20 A

I'm looking to add ingredients to the database with their nutritional information. I know a few people that have recipes containing ingredients not listed, and while I know I can add ingredients for my own account others will have to do the same when building their recipes.

The first one I came across was Mesquite Powder, there is one entry in the database for a specific kind but the nutritional information is lacking. The fiber, protein, carbs, sodium are in there, but not the vitamin 2, calcium and iron.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.