WHat is the "other" category that DB sometimes assigns to food?

Today I entered in Uncle Ben’s Ready Rice – Whole Grain Brown. After I added it to today’s food log, I noticed that in addition to fats, carbs, and protein, DB added a 4th pie segment called “other” and said I had consumed 5% in this category. I tried adding rice created by a different user and got the same result. Then I actually created my own food submission so I could be sure there was nothing weird going on, and I still got this “other” category. Where is DailyBurn getting this from and why is it only coming from my rice? As far as I can tell there are no unusual ingredients in it. The link for the rice is below. Thanks.

tracker.dailyburn.com/nutrition/uncle_bens_ready_rice_whole_grain_-_brown_calories

I’ve gotten this same ‘other’ from the coffee creamers I’m prone to indulging in. I always assumed it was from preservatives and artificial flavours, but that doesn’t explain why it would come up on something like whole grain brown rice.

/edit – taken from the uncle ben’s site, “•All UNCLE BEN’S® parboiled long grain white and flavored rice are enriched with B-vitamins, including thiamin, folic acid, and niacin, as well as iron.”
Maybe it’s referring to these added vitamins?
or, “•Whole grain brown rice contains the germ and bran layers, wherein lie the majority of beneficial nutrients, like antioxidants, phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals. It is a natural source of fiber for a healthy diet.” Would the germ and bran count as ‘other’?

I always thought it was when the calories didn’t add up to the fat, carb and protein calories. Fat 1 g = 9 calories, protein/carbs = 4/g (not sure if carbs deducts fibre grams?).

I once saw this food where they input over a thousand calories and the fat/carbs/protein were input about 5 g each. There was a large % of other.

Vaanja, vitamins, flavours and preservatives don’t have calories.

JosieF is right, in that the other is USUALLY a mistake made by whoever entered the food into the database. Compare against your package, and I bet the carbs, fat, or protein is off.

However, sometimes the other is not a mistake. It is due to alcohol or alcohol sugars. That doesn’t apply for Uncle Ben’s, or coffee creamers.

I just did the math:

The food has 240 calories according to the link that sbrobin posted. However, at 4 calories each per gram of carbs and protein and 9 calories per gram of fat, it SHOULD only add up to 203 calories:
(5 * 4) + (39 * 4) + (3 * 9) = 20 + 156 + 27 = 203

So, there is a mistake somewhere.

Thanks for the info guys, that must have been it because I went to their web site and looked up the nutritional info, and it had changed from 240 to 190 calories. I edited my food and added it, and the other column went away. Their packaging must have been incorrect because I definitely entered the calorie amount correctly the first time. Kind of scary to think that they overestimated their calories by 50. But I guess that’s better than underestimating them!

I’ve had foods with tha tmistake too…but also, if you consume alcohol it will show in that “other” catergory because the calories from alcohol are neither fat, protein nor carbs.