"nutritional rating system" news and stories

Do you find the traditional nutrition label on food packaging a tad confusing? I sometimes do, and I'm an avid nutrition-label-reader. A new system aims to simplify everything with one score.

The NuVal Nutrition Scoring System will debut in a few national supermarkets some time in the near future. The system uses a score called the ONQI (Overall Nutritional Quality Index), which will give each food item a score based on its micro-nutrients, macro-nutrients, and other "nutritional properties". The goal is for the one number to be an overall indicator of the nutritiouness of the food in question.

The score is out of 100, with 100 being the healthiest. The system wants to give consumers a quick overview of healthiness without absolute terms like "good" or "bad". There's no information on which supermarkets will be the first to adopt the sytem, but the website says to look for updates by the beginning of October.