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Our Health Score shows how balanced a recipe, a meal or your day is – from 0 to 100, with fixed rules based on ingredients and nutrition values.
The Health Score is a number from 0 to 100 that shows how balanced a recipe – or, in the Food Diary, a meal and your day – is put together. It combines five values: fast carbs (glycaemic load), nutrient density, omega-3 & veg, fibre & variety and how much is made from scratch rather than from ready-made food.
The same rules apply to every recipe. The score describes your food, not your health. For the most balanced recipes, browse nutrient-dense recipes.
| Value | Weight |
|---|---|
| Values | |
| Few fast carbs – glycaemic load per serving | 25% |
| Nutrient density – nutrients per calorie and food groups | 25% |
| Omega-3 & veg – omega-3, veg, berries, pulses, olive oil, spices | 20% |
| Fibre & variety – fibre, plant variety, live cultures | 15% |
| Made from scratch – basic ingredients rather than ready-made food (NOVA) | 15% |
| Limits and deductions | |
| One value low – below 5 → 89 at most, below 4 → 84 at most | Cap |
| Empty calories – over 600 kcal with hardly any protein or fibre (dessert −2) | −5 |
All five at 6 or more: +5 points.
Everything you log gets a Health Score with the same rules as our recipes.
| What | How it works |
|---|---|
| Every meal | Recipe, photo, text, barcode or search – what counts is how the meal is put together. Portion size doesn’t change the score. |
| Your day | The average of your meals – bigger ones count more. Coffee, water and anything under 30 kcal don’t count. |
| No guessed number | If less than half of your calories have a score, there’s no number yet. |
| Free and Premium | The number for your day is free. With Premium you also see the five values, what raises and lowers them, the score of each meal, a tip and your week. |
See how the Health Score looks in the app
Each of the five values runs from 0 to 10. Weighted, added up and multiplied by 10, they give the raw score from 0 to 100. If all five are at 6 or more, 5 points are added.
We measure the single values against our own recipe collection – a typical recipe sits in the middle. A fixed curve turns the raw score into the number you see: scores below 40 stay the same, 66 becomes 72, 100 stays 100. The order of recipes doesn’t change.
Caps afterwards, matching the levels: few fast carbs, omega-3 & veg, made from scratch or nutrient density below 5 → 89 at most, below 4 → 84 at most. Few fast carbs, omega-3 & veg or made from scratch below 3 → 69 at most. Made from scratch below 2 → 54 at most.
If a nutrition value is missing, that value gets no number rather than a 0 – the others count proportionally.
“Made from scratch” counts how much is cooked from basic ingredients (NOVA). Flour and sugar count as basic ingredients there – whether it’s white flour or lots of sugar counts under “Few fast carbs”.
Five more values (Fullness, Blue Zones principle, Plant compounds, PRAL value, and zinc, selenium & iodine) are shown on the recipe but don’t count towards the score.
We rate a recipe per serving. The score describes your food, not your health.
The score follows fixed rules, the same for every recipe. It doesn’t replace medical or dietary advice.
A number from 0 to 100 that shows how balanced a recipe – or, in the Food Diary, a meal and your day – is put together. It combines five values: fast carbs (glycaemic load), nutrient density, omega-3 & veg, fibre & variety and how much comes from basic ingredients instead of ready-made food.
Every meal you log gets a score with the same rules as our recipes – whatever the portion size. Your day is the average, weighted by calories: a big lunch counts more than a snack. Entries under 30 kcal, such as coffee or water, don’t count.
A number appears as soon as at least half of your calories have a score. Entries where only the calories are known, and meals whose ingredients we know too little about, stay without a score – better no number than a guessed one.
Yes. In the glycaemic load they count with their real glycaemic index – exactly once. In the other values, lots of added sugar, honey or syrup included, counts as one minus point.
Usually because of lots of white flour, rice or sugar, little fibre or highly processed ingredients such as sausages. A portion of veg or pulses on the side often helps.