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Food Compass: a new food scoring system | Professor Dariush Mozaffarian

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Limitations of Refined Grains and Starches

Simon: Added sugar was given negative points in almost all these systems, but not refined grains. English muffins like terrific scores because they're 100% starch, no added sugar, no fat,. But that's not a healthy food, right? It's glucose in a package. And then lastly, Simon, another limitation we noticed was that beyond kind of nutrients,These systems often didn't look at other things like processing wasn't incorporated. These bioactives and phenolics and flavonols weren't incorporated. Can we do research to see if we can create a better system?"

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