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Your questions (and my answers) restored

Every week, I get a boatload of interesting nutrition questions from NutritionData.com users. Of course, I can't give individualized nutrition or medical advice over the internet, but I try to answer (or at least respond to!) as many of your questions as I can here on the blog. 

To facilitate this, we set up the Ask Monica page, where you can post your questions in the comment section. I address topics that may be of interest to a lot of readers in blog posts. (You'll find them all archived in the Ask Monica folder).  In addition, I post brief answers to many other questions right in the comment itself. You can search the questions on the Ask Monica page by keyword using the Ctrl-F ("Find on page") feature on your browser.

Recently, during a reconfiguration,  all but a few of the comments disappeared from the Ask Monica page.  If you posted a new question recently, you would not have seen it (or my answer) on the page.  Oops! 

As of today, however, you can once again see (and search for) questions and responses on the Ask Monica page. 

IF Ratings for recipes!

Thanks also for your patience while we tracked down and fixed a bug that was preventing us from calculating IF Ratings for recipes.  The IF Ratings for recipes are once again working!  A note: Some ingredients in our database do not have IF Ratings (N/A means Not Available) because there is insufficient nutrient data to calculate the rating.  If unrated ingredients contribute more than ten percent of the calories in a recipe, the IF Rating for the entire recipe is N/A. 

For more information on the IF Ratings, see also this post.

Together we're better

We always appreciate your help in identifying issues on the site and your patience while we solve them!