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Macronutrients don't match nutrition facts

looking for a little help as I'm finding this very confusing. I am trying to edit my diet to make it more balanced than it has been. I've been using the macronutrients portion of the food log, but I recently clicked on nutrition facts and the numbers don't match.

 

Am I missing something here, or is there some error?

 

For example on macronutrients carbs = 135g, fat = 32g, and protein = 66g. But on nutrition facts carbs = 100g, fat = 44g, and protein =80g.

 

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I'm a new user here and found the same confusing facts. Maybe it has something to do with how the original food was entered into the Fitbit food system. I have seen the same exact food listed 4 or 5 times with very different nutritional info listed. I wish Fitbit hired people to input accurate numbers before broadcasting inaccurate info for everyone to use, especially on things that are easily checked. 

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I'm having this issue too... I'm doing the Atkins diet and I've tended to just log food in a spreadsheet as Fitbit doesn't show net carbs but this time I've found that my carb count is sufficiently under my daily limit for fibre to not make a difference however today I've just checked as its showing 7 grams of carbs which I think is higher than it should be.

 

I've gone through each item of food that I've logged and there are 2 items each with 2g of carbs, 2 with 1g of carbs and all the others 0 carbs, so 6 grams in total.

 

I entered all these food items as custom items as I don't trust the food database, and there are no decimals involved so its not a rounding error. I don't understand how the total can be 16% out when its just adding numbers!

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