Courtesy: Topco
Just look for a single number on your favorite foods… and you’ll know how healthy it is. It’s a new system called the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) and it’s coming soon to a grocery store near you.
Nutrition and health experts at Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center developed ONQI as a way to know what you’re getting at a quick glance. The rating system looks at the good and the bad in foods - for example calcium, fiber, omega 3 fatty acids versus sugar, cholesterol, saturated fat - and comes up with a score of 1 to 100 for each product to represent its overall nutritional quality.
The main goal of ONQI is to help us make choices within a specific food category - say, you want to know which bread, cereal, or pasta sauce is the most nutritious. But you can also use the scores to compare foods in different categories as well.
ONQI will start hitting store shelves in 2008.
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