No. Every food label in the catalog is verified by the Data Team. Users create custom foods and submit PhotoFood requests, and the team uses those requests to extend and verify the catalog. Before July 2020 the catalog did hold user-contributed foods from 2010; those are retired and show only on old records.
All food labels in MyNetDiary and PlateAI Food Catalog are verified by our Data Team striving for 100% accuracy. When needed, users create custom foods and submit PhotoFood requests. The Data Team uses PhotoFood requests to extend and verify the Food Catalog.
Prior to July 2020, the food catalog contained user-contributed foods from year 2010. These foods gradually became outdated and were superseded by verified system foods. They are retired now. If you used these foods in your diary, they still show up for your old records as "retired" foods.
Related questions
Are food labels in the catalog added directly by users?
No. Food labels in the MyNetDiary and PlateAI catalog are verified by the Data Team. Users can create custom foods and submit PhotoFood requests, but the team uses those requests to extend and verify the shared catalog.
How do PhotoFood requests affect the food catalog?
When a needed food is missing, users can create a custom food and submit a PhotoFood request. The Data Team reviews those requests and uses the supplied information to add to or verify entries in the shared food catalog.
Why do old diary records show retired foods?
The catalog once included older user-contributed foods that gradually became outdated and were replaced by verified system foods. Those entries are now retired, but they remain visible in old diary records where they were previously logged.
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