Nutriscore

Nutritional quality score is a measure of the overall nutritional value or quality of food rated on a color coded scale from A-E, with A being the best and E being the worse and they are color coded with green being the best and red being the worse.

Other names

• The Nutri-Score
• 5-Color Nutrition label
• 5-CNL

Rating

The scale assigns products a rating letter from A (best) to E (worst), with associated colors from green to red.

Factors

Negative factors

• high energy density per 100 g or per 100 ml,
• high sugar content,
• high content of saturated fatty acids,
• high salt content.

Positive factors

• content of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes
• fiber content,
• protein content
• content rapeseed, walnut and olive oil

External links

• Wikipedia
• Development of a new front-of-pack nutrition label in France: the five-colour Nutri-Score, article in the WHO's Public Health Panorama (vol. 3, issue 4) which describes the Nutri-Score in detail

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