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  • Under “Goals” on the Wikipedia page.

    Its goal is to allow consumers to compare the overall nutritional value of food products from the same group (category), including food products from different manufacturers.

    But, I agree that it’s confusing. The fact that you could miss the point of them even after skimming the Wikipedia shows how flawed their design is by not explaining it in simple terms on the label. And the Wikipedia page is also bad, why is it not mentioned in the first sentence in the introduction part?




  • …that’s not how those work.

    If a frozen pizza gets a B that means compared to OTHER frozen pizzas it has a higher nutritional value.

    It compares similar products for nutritional value, not the overall “healthiness” of all products compared with each other.

    So you can compare a salami pizza with a veggie pizza or a cereal bar with cereals, but not a strawberry yogurt with a chocolate bar, because those are not within the same product group.