Based on the lengthy research I had to do when writing Lose It Nigerian, I know this information is grossly inaccurate.Granted lots of factors affect the caloric content of garri based on processing methodologies but averaging formulas still bring a cup at a little over 500 calories. GarriĪnother example is this popular entry for garri. Imagine what happens when you account for the calories in the soup. Considering that the average dieter is on a caloric plan between 1200-1400 calorie. PS: let the fact that one cup of poundo has a whooping 940 calories sink in just for a moment. If you are on a low calorie diet and are more concerned about calorie alone, this misinformation has now set you back 123 calories in just one meal. MyFitnessPal information Vs Actual Ola Ola packaging informationįrom the fat content information in the MFP entry, you can already tell that the information is inaccurate. These are two examples of things that most Nigerians who use Myfitnesspal would have used at some point of another. It’s when you get into things are more local to Nigerian diet that you might have some issues: This is a great feature and it works excellently well with Non Traditional ingredients. Most people who use my fitness pal also use it for their own recipe development. This is why it’s a bad decision to rely on unverified entries. If you are trying to lose weight, daily caloric and macro information should be balanced to at least 95%.

Why it doesn’t work well for Nigerian or African food in general is because we ALL cook differently, there are no reasonable averages.

Why it works so well for non-Nigerian foods is because most of the foods are pre packaged, so pretty much the company who packages the food has done the legwork of calorie calculation and verification.

My fitness pal is largely an unverified database, meaning that anyone can enter any information which shows up in search. Why does my fitness plan require extra legwork you ask ?

Myfitnesspal 1200 calories