How often do you add foods to database?

I was loving this site and phone app when I first installed it.. but I have been using it for a couple weeks now and I am really tired and frustrated with constantly having to add food to it.. not any weird personal stuff.. off the shelve products.. love the scan feature, but not so much now.. 4 out of 5 scans results in not found.. so I sit an add yet another product.. I can't be the only one doing this.. and my food items are not ethnic oddities.. I mean really.. Rice a roni.. I am the only person to eat this??? Please, if your gonna add a food products, scan the barcode first and then add it from there.. it will attach the product to the bar code.. A sham one of the best features is also its downfall.

I don't use the app, but i think originally this site was started just online, so the food database was all manually entered. now with the app, a whole new food list needs entered along with the barcode.

wonder if there's a way to edit a current food so you can add the barcode?

Rice-A-Roni has tons of entries.

I rarely find a product that is not in the database! But if I do, it is usually an odd item. Sometimes I find that when I search for the food it comes up but not when it is scanned - maybe the barcode didn't match or it got added without the barcode.

I wish there were a way to enter the barcode by typing in the numbers. I don't have net everywhere, and I could just jot them down and type them in later.

I was going to say "It helps if you spell it right", because it's Rice-a-Roni with hyphens, not spaces. But I searched just now, and whether I use spaces or hyphens I get a whole list of products, a dozen or more, but none of them are NAME.D Rice-a-Roni. That's in small print in parentheses as the name of the manufacturer. They a ll h.ave specific names of their own. Try that & see what you get.

I eat a lot of weird foreign foods that usually aren't listed so I usually add them. Also dragon fruit/pitaya wasn't listed? I added that but because it's a fruit and not a brand food it's still listed under custom food. lol

The site search is useless. Try googling your item, with "fatsecret" and most of the time it comes up even when the website and app don't show it.

I generally find the products I need but when I need to add one so far I have been unable to associate it with a barcode. I am not sure I got it how to do.
Something that does happen sometimes is that a product is found via the barcode but when I try to look for it using its name the search results are 0. Weird

How do you scan a barcode? I've not managed to find it yet on the blackberry app.

Thanks for the google tip, riocaz

when you click on add a food (+ sign) it gives you the option to scan the bc

Thanks, paperiniko - I still don't see the option on the blackberry app. Maybe it isn't available in the UK?

+1

Agreed. FS search engine is not one of its finer features.

I am able to add food (with picture) but cannot associate them with a barcode... Is it possible to add that option... (to the developers). Or does anyone knows how to do this?