How Food Fit works, and where it is wrong

Food Fit is a preference-based nutrition and ingredient fit score. It is not medical advice. Always check the package label, allergens, and your individual health needs.

What the score is

Food Fit is a 0-100 number showing how well one product matches the preferences you set. Every product starts at 100. Points come off for added sugar, sodium, saturated fat, trans fat and processing classification; points go on for fiber and protein. Ingredients you chose to Limit take 8 points each, up to 25. An ingredient you chose to Avoid caps the score at 39 and marks the product not compatible with your profile.

The same product scores differently for two people, because the preferences are different. That is the point. Every score shows its own arithmetic under “Why this score”.

What the score is not

• It is not medical advice, and EatsNest is not a medical device.
• It is not a judgement about whether a food is good or bad in general.
• It is not an allergen authority. Always read the package label.
• It does not know your individual health needs, medication or diagnosis.

Where it can be wrong

• Missing data. Where a record has no ingredient list, EatsNest says Unknown and shows a shield rather than a leaf, however good the nutrition looks. It never guesses at an ingredient it cannot see.
• Stale data. Every product shows its source and the date we last checked it. Recipes change, and a label in your hand is more current than ours.
• Per serving, not per package. Scores are calculated on the serving size the source records, which is not always the amount a person eats.
• Matching by text. Ingredient flags are matched against the written ingredient list. An unusual spelling can be missed, and a similar word can match when it should not.

Found something wrong?

Every product page has a “Report a data issue” control. Tell us what does not match the package and we will check the source.