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Wider nutrition labeling systems headed to stores in U.S. | Health | Reuters.com
A new system for scoring the nutritional value of foods will find its way to grocery store shelves next year, the latest attempt to come up with a standard way to make healthier food choices.

The Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI) was developed by a group of nutrition and health experts, led by David Katz, chairman of the Yale Prevention Research Center.

ONQI takes into account a number of factors in assigning a score of 1 to 100 for each food, including negatives like the amount of saturated fat, sugar and cholesterol in a food, and positives like fiber, nutrients, omega 3 fatty acids and the quality of the proteins.

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anyway, I think that reading nutrition labels is fairly easy, and it most definitely doesn’t require a “PhD in nutritional biochemistry” to read the ones we have now.  Wegmans is supposed to be one of the early adopters when it comes out.  If I remember, I will let you know when it does.

P.S.  I did buy some reusable shopping bags from Wegmans, I just forgot them last time I went shopping.  Here’s to next time.