Fooducate

[dancerjodi]

My boss has recently gone through a health transformation of sorts, and told us about a smart phone app from these folks http://www.fooducate.com/. Brian and I have been having fun using it at the supermarket on any processed foods we are considering buying.

Foods are rated A-F, with A being the best and F the worst. It helped us at BJs to find some good breakfast cereal options (yes processed isn't best, but sometimes you just don't have the time to cook some oatmeal or some eggs).

Today's realization: there aren't any good granola bars, least that I could find scanning for a bit at Stop and Shop this morning. The best I could find was a C rating (Cascadian Farms organic) which was at least better than most of the bars that were Ds and Fs. Time for better easy snack options. I think Brian will need to get used to eating pieces of fruit and that kind of thing. He had such unhealthy foods as a kid that just grabbing an apple or that kind of thing doesn't seem like "food" to him. :)

Comments

[alonewiththemoon]

How about Larabars? They are just fruit and nuts, no grains, no syrups or sweeteners, all raw, pressed together in a way that makes them seem like a bar. I am addicted to them and should probably buy stock.

[dancer.livejournal.com]

They rate a B- http://www.fooducate.com/app#page=product-search&term=larabar

Which is good as far as these things go. I'll need to check them out! :)

[alonewiththemoon]

I finally had a moment to check the website out--I think the rating is due to non-organic ingredients and the nuts sometimes being roasted. I did search the entire site for Larabars and found a blog series in which they compared various snack bars head to head, and Larabars always came out ahead. So I guess while they are not as good as say a bag of organic raw nuts and berries, they are better than the majority of the snack bars on the market. Cool site in general, thanks for the reference!