Not tracking iodine

cuario

I've added 2 highly loaded iodine foods (oysters and wakame) and the iodine content remains at 0.

Susan_RD_101

@cuario

Iodine is one of the most frustrating nutrients to track since few companies complete nutrient analyses on the iodine content of their food (and thus, don't list it on the label).

If you know how much iodine content is in the food, you can create a "Custom Food" to reflect this.

Here are a few references for the iodine content of various foods:
http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/nutrition/iodinefood/Pages/default.aspx
https://www.dietitians.ca/Downloads/Factsheets/Food-Sources-of-Iodine.aspx
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Iodine-HealthProfessional/#h3

Kind regards,

cuario

Thanks, makes sense.

maxb

Strange. My 'DIARY' isn't even showing an entry for iodine.

cuario

If you tap on the daily macros slider on the top of the app, then choose Full Report you will see it there.

maxb

@cuario

Nope, can't find it anywhere.

But I'm using the basic browser version.

Hilary

@maxb the target for iodine is hidden by default, as the values for iodine are sparse in both lab analysed and branded listings.
Some nutrients are not visible by default as they are not generally available from our nutrition data sources. Since there is very little data for these nutrients in our database, your tracked values may be significantly lower than they actually are.
However, if you still wish to track them, settings can be changed by following these steps:
1) Select the Settings Tab
2) In the Targets section, scroll down to the Nutrient Targets and use the tabs to find the nutrient
3) Select the ''Visible'' check box next to the nutrient

maxb

@Hilary thanks