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What if you could rank food by ‘healthiness’ as you shopped? Nutrient profiling systems use algorithms to simplify picking healthy groceries

  • Written by Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageCertain amounts and types of food processing can diminish the nutritional value of the original ingredients.Deanna Kelly/Moment via Getty Images

Imagine a world where food on grocery store shelves is ranked by its healthiness, with simple, research-backed scores. In some countries, that world already exists.

Nutrient profiling systems, or NPSs,...

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