Sweet potatoes not showing Vitamin A

[rhynas]

Sweet potatoes are high in Vitamin A . I had oven cooked sweet potato fries & the Vitamin A content was given as 0. Any ideas why?

Also, are the % given against the nutrients, the % of your RDA that you have eaten that day, or the % of that nutrient contained in the foodstuff?

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[YojanaFitbit]

@rhynas I'm very glad that you have joined our family here in the Forums. 🙂

You're right, Sweet potatoes are an extremely important source of Vitamin A because they contain high levels of beta-carotene (4, 5). Beta-carotene is transformed into vitamin A in our livers, with every molecule of beta-carotene producing two molecules of Vitamin A. According to the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), a baked sweet potato in its skin will provide around 1,403 mcg of vitamin A, or 561% of a person's daily requirement.

In this case, I think it's best to add this information to the Nutritional Information label. You can see how to do so here.

Looking forward to see you again in the near future.

[rhynas]

Thanks, but it’s not really good enough. The vitamin content of common foods should be provided by yourselves. 
Also, you ignored the 2nd part of my question which was:

 “are the % given against the nutrients, the % of your RDA that you have eaten that day, or the % of that nutrient contained in the foodstuff?”

I filled in your survey, which I clicked to do when I’d finished, but it flashed up in the middle of my message to you so I had to start again. The options given did not cover what I was asking about, so I had to choose the wrong options!!! What’s the point of that?

All in all, a very poor performance from FitBit.