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.
HEFI-2019 (Brassard 2022), HENI healthy-life-minutes (Stylianou 2021), Health Star Rating (HSRAC v9), Food Compass (Mozaffarian 2021), ReCiPe 2016 LCA (AGRIBALYSE 3.2), and dietary-pattern resemblance across Mediterranean, DASH, Vegan, West African staple, and more.
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.
HEFI-2019
Adherence to Canada's Food Guide
How well does a day's eating line up with Canada's Food Guide? Scored 0–80 across 10 components.
Brassard 2022, APNM
HENI
Minutes of healthy life per serving
Translates a food into minutes of healthy life gained or lost, drawn from 15 diet-related risks in the Global Burden of Disease study.
Stylianou 2021, Nature Food
HSR (HSRAC v9)
A star rating for packaged products
Rates a packaged product from 0.5 to 5 stars against others in its own category. Built for comparing products on the shelf.
HSRAC Implementation Guide v9
Food Compass
How closely a food tracks longer-life eating patterns
Scores every food on a single 1 to 100 scale across nine areas of nutrition. Higher means the food more closely resembles patterns linked to longer, healthier lives in research studies.
Mozaffarian 2021, Nature Food
Environmental (ReCiPe 2016)
The climate, land, and water cost of producing this food
A production-stage footprint with honest uncertainty ranges, built on ReCiPe 2016 and AGRIBALYSE 3.2.
Huijbregts 2017; Poore & Nemecek 2018; ADEME
Dietary pattern
Mediterranean, DASH, Vegan, West African, and more
Which well-studied eating pattern does your day most resemble? We compare it against 8 patterns drawn from the research.
Trichopoulou 2003; Sacks 2001; Orlich 2013; Willett 2019
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.
Scorecard (all metrics)
See all six lenses for the same food list in one clear view. One click, six compact summary cards.
24-h dietary recall wizard
Build a full day, occasion by occasion: breakfast, snack, lunch, and so on. Each meal breaks down into its individual foods, then you can score the whole day under any lens.
Packaged-food scanner
Snap one to three photos of a label. The app reads the Nutrition Facts panel and ingredient list, you confirm, and the product is scored across every lens.
Recall history
Save your recall days, then reload one or average across several. Averaging gives a truer picture of how you usually eat than any single day can.
CNF + WAFCT explorer
Search the full food catalogue of 6,719 foods. Smart search understands synonyms, French, and compound queries.
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.