Retroactive Edits to Foods

tylerlink

I want to edit a copy of a food that I eat regularly to correct a nutrient value. I would then like to replace every instance in the past with this copy so that I can see the correct nutrient totals in the past.

Is this possible? I'm almost certain I did this by accident recently and can't figure out how to do it again.

Seir

When you edit entered food entries, it asks if you want to update past entries.

tylerlink

I only see any option to Edit a Copy, which I did.

Let me be more specific.

I eat eggs every day. I recently discovered that the bioavailability of vitamin B12 in eggs is about 10%. I want to adjust the level of the Egg diary entry to reflect the bioavailability not the total amount. When I make the change I want it to update every past diary entry.

I can't figure out how to do that, but I do recognize the screen to "Update old entries?" which I accomplished in the past. I just can't figure out how to do it again.

Seir

I believe what you're trying to do only works for Custum Food entries.

When using database entries, you can only edit a copy of them.
But since you've logged a database food entry, you won't be able to update those past entries easily.

At least that's what my experimenting so far has shown. The main reason I've created a large number of custom entries.

tylerlink

I believe you are correct which is very unfortunate.

If the team at Cronometer is reading this, I hope they add an option to replace past entries with a custom copy. Otherwise all past data is useless if you discover, like I did, that the entry I've been using does not have accurate values, as is common with so many foods.