Low-Carb Food Grade: Helping You Find Healthy Low-Carb Foods
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Need help finding healthy low-carb foods? MyNetDiary's Low-Carb Food Grade can help you plan and evaluate your low-carb diet.
What is the Low-Carb Food Grade, and how can it help me find healthy low-carb foods?
Our Low-Carb Food Grade is a tool to help you choose the best low-carb foods. The Low-Carb food grade is a version of our original food grade.
The Low-Carb Food Grade assigns foods a letter grade:
A - Best foods
B - Good choices
C - Ok in moderation
D - Limit
Here is an example of Low-Carb Food Grade displayed for two food entries:
How we came up with the Low-Carb Food Grade
A team of Registered Dietitians reviewed hundreds of foods in terms of their nutrition value and appropriateness for a low-carb diet. The dietitians rated the foods on a scale of 0-10, with 10 being the best healthy low-carb foods. A mathematical formula was developed based on these food ratings and the nutrition profile of the foods. This formula calculates the Low-Carb Food Grade for every food a user enters.
Negative factors: Carbohydrates, trans fat, saturated fat
Positive factors: Dietary fiber, protein, unsaturated fat
Limitations of the Low-Carb Food Grade
- Foods with similar grades may have important nutrition differences not measured by the Low-Carb Food Grade.
- The Low-Carb Food Grade may not emphasize your individual nutrition goals. For example, sodium is not a large factor in the Low-Carb Food Grade, but might be important to for you to limit.
- The formula is only based on nutrition information available on the Nutrition Facts label.
Tips for using the Low-Carb Food Grade
- Focus on your overall choices. Don't get discouraged if you eat a few foods with low ratings.
- Carbohydrates have the largest effect on the Low-Carb Food Grade. Even though a high-carbohydrate food may be healthy by other standards, it may have a lower grade due to the carbohydrate content.
- Portions still matter, even for highly rated foods.
- You can hide the Low-Carb Food Grade from appearing on food labels and meal reports if you do not find it helpful. Go to Plan/Nutrient Targets for web and Android apps, or to Food Entry Setting in the iPhone app (open a meal then tap the 3-dot icon at the top right of the screen, then tap Settings).
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Jun 9, 2020
