The nutrition grade sums up a food's nutritional value in a single letter, A–E. It lets you compare at a glance how good an everyday choice a recipe or product is overall — without having to analyse a macro table in your head.
You'll see this badge on recipe photos and in the food detail view.
The more calories, sugars, saturated fat and salt a food has per 100 grams, the more penalty points it gets. These are the nutrients most of us struggle with overconsuming.
Being rich in protein and fibre, and having a large share of fruit and vegetables, earns points back. For recipes we estimate the fruit-and-vegetable share from the ingredients; if the composition is unknown, we'd rather skip those points than guess.
The gap between penalty and bonus points is converted into a five-step grade. A means the food fits well on an everyday plate; E means it's more of a treat. Neither is a ban or an order — even an E-food has its place, just less often and in smaller amounts.
A low-calorie food can still get a poor grade (say, if it's very salty), and a nourishing nut butter can be a better choice than a "light" dessert. The nutrition grade looks at a food's composition as a whole, not just its energy. Among recipes with the same grade, we show the lower-calorie one higher on the recipe page.
The grade is calculated per 100 g of food, so portions of different sizes stay comparable. The portion size is still up to you — you can overeat an A-food too.
If a food's data has gaps (say, salt content isn't recorded), the grade may look better than it really is. We mark such foods with an ≈ approximation sign. Data quality for user-added foods improves over time.
About the methodology: the nutrition grade is based on the 2023 Nutri-Score methodology widely used across Europe, which we apply to the foods and recipes in our database. We don't currently apply the special tables for beverages, oils and cheeses, so a handful of such foods may score more leniently than on the store package. Nutri-Score is a trademark of Santé publique France; the FunTastyQ nutrition grade is our own implementation of the same science-based methodology.
Questions, or think a food's grade looks off? Write to us — it's usually a gap in the food's data that we can fix together.