Nutrition by the Numbers
Wouldn’t it be great if foods had a single nutrition score you could rely on? Whole Foods’ ANDI scores are part of Eat Right America, a larger program aimed at optimizing health and weight loss. Market Street’s NuVal scores grew out of a project at Griffin Hospital, a Yale University teaching affiliate.
Still, I have my doubts. Is Kale really 100 (or 10) times better than olive oil?
It is nice to see that Kale scored a perfect 1,000 score on the ANDI scale and a near-perfect 99 score on the NuVal scale.
My question is about split peas, which scored a measly 58 out of 1,000 on the ANDI scale — but a whopping 96 out of 100 on the NuVal scale. How can it be so different?
So to lose weight I have to eat kale, iceberg lettuce and carrots.
Yoplait fat-free yogurt is another items that varies from one list to the other.
Rule of thumb: does it taste bad? If so, it probably scored really high.
These rating systems look really screwy to me.
Have to agree that the rankings look somewhat weird.
This gives a whole new meaning to the idea of a parallel universe.
I just did an article comparing ANDI and NuVal – http://www.morssglobalfinance.com/nutrition-scoring-nuvaltm-versus-andi-but-what-info-is-really-needed/.
I reached the same conclusion as John.