Is this food good for you, and for the planet?
Score a single product, a homemade dish, or a whole day of eating against six published research measures, all in one place. Every result is explained in plain language and carries the limits the original studies set. No invented grades, and no single number pretending to settle the question.
Six published measures cover healthy eating, health impact, product stars, Food Compass, environmental footprint, and eating style. Each one answers a different question. We explain what each score means and where its limits are.
Six published lenses
Each measure answers a different question about the same food. No single score wins. The right answer depends on what you are asking.
Healthy eating
How well you match Canada's Food Guide
Scores a day of eating from 0 to 80 across vegetables, grains, protein, drinks, and more.
Brassard 2022, APNM
Health impact
Minutes of healthy life per serving
Estimates minutes of healthy life gained or lost from one serving, based on long-term disease research.
Stylianou 2021, Nature Food
Health Star Rating
Stars for packaged products
Rates a packaged product from 0.5 to 5 stars against others in the same category on the shelf.
HSRAC Implementation Guide v9
Food Compass
One score across all food types
Grades every food from 1 to 100 on nutrition and processing. Higher scores align with eating patterns linked to longer life in research.
Mozaffarian 2021, Nature Food
Environmental impact
Climate, land, and water
Estimates the climate, land, and water needed to produce your food, with honest uncertainty ranges.
Poore & Nemecek 2018; Mekonnen & Hoekstra
Dietary pattern
Mediterranean, DASH, and more
Shows which familiar eating style your day most closely matches, from eight patterns in the research.
Trichopoulou 2003; Sacks 2001; Orlich 2013
Ways to get started
Different ways to bring food into the platform. However you start, it lands in the same food list and can be scored under any of the six lenses.
All scores
See healthy eating, health impact, stars, Food Compass, environment, and eating style for the same food list in one view.
Food diary
Log a full day meal by meal: breakfast, snacks, lunch, and dinner. Each meal breaks into individual foods you can score under any measure.
Scan a product
Photograph a nutrition label, confirm the details, and score the product across every measure.
Saved days
Save logged days and revisit them, or average several days together for a truer picture of how you usually eat.
Food search
Search thousands of foods from Canadian and West African databases. Smart search understands synonyms and everyday names.
My meals
Save the meals you eat often and re-score them under any lens whenever you like.
A multi-database food catalogue
New food-composition databases can be added without changing any of the scoring, so the catalogue keeps growing. The West African Food Composition Table was the first addition in May 2026, and other regional databases can follow the same way.
Three audiences, one set of numbers
Every score can be read in three ways. The numbers never change; the explanation does.
Individuals
Plain-language interpretation with the caveats that matter and no methodology jargon. Score a meal, a packaged product, or a day, and get an honest read.
Researchers
A full methodology audit for every score: component-by-component breakdowns, citations, data-quality ratings, matcher confidence, and sensitivity overlays.
Policy makers
Population-level framing for procurement, taxation, labelling, and food-environment surveillance, with a monetised social-cost overlay where the evidence supports it.
What the platform is not
- Not clinical advice. Scoring is population-anchored, not a personal diagnosis or prescription.
- Not a single composite score. The six lenses answer different questions, so we report all six rather than fold disagreement into one number.
- Not a whole-life-cycle footprint. ReCiPe and AGRIBALYSE cover the production phase. Household preparation and end-of-life are out of scope in this version.
- Not yet Canadian-anchored everywhere. HEFI is Canadian by design. HENI uses US Global Burden of Disease epidemiology, with Canadian portability noted as future work, and Food Compass is anchored to NHANES with Canadian validation still pending.
- No account, no health-data collection. Your recall history and active food list live in your browser only. There is no login and no personal data stored on our servers.
Primary references
- HSRAC, HSR Implementation Guide v9 (Dec 2025); Shahid 2020, Nutrients 12, 1791.
- Brassard et al. 2022a/b. HEFI-2019 development and evaluation. APNM 47, 595–610 / 582–594.
- Stylianou et al. 2021. HENI healthy-life-minutes framework. Nature Food 2, 616–627.
- Mozaffarian et al. 2021. Food Compass nutrient profiling system. Nature Food 2, 809–818. O'Hearn et al. 2022 mortality validation, Nature Communications 13, 7066.
- Huijbregts et al. 2017. ReCiPe 2016 v1.1. Int. J. LCA 22, 138–147. RIVM 2016-0104a (2017).
- Poore & Nemecek 2018. Food supply-chain LCI meta-analysis. Science 360, 987–992.
- ADEME 2024. AGRIBALYSE 3.2. doi:10.57745/XTENSJ. Furrer et al. 2024 LCI interlinking, J. Cleaner Prod. 470:143198.
- Vincent et al. 2019. WAFCT 2019 (FAO/INFOODS). Dietary-pattern prototypes from Trichopoulou 2003, Sacks 2001, Orlich 2013, Willett 2019.
Start scoring
Score a single product, a homemade dish, or a full day's eating. Every published lens, in plain English, with the caveats the literature requires.