How nutrition scoring works

What your nutrition score reflects and how to improve it.

Your nutrition score summarizes how a product’s formulation stacks up on the nutrients that matter for your market. It updates automatically as you change your recipe.

What goes into the score

Positive nutrients like protein and fiber that raise the score.
Nutrients to limit, like added sugar, sodium, and saturated fat.
Serving size, which affects the per-serving numbers on your label.

Improving your score

Open the product and adjust the formulation. Reducing an ingredient high in sugar or sodium, or increasing a source of protein or fiber, will move the score. Because everything recalculates instantly, you can experiment freely.

Note

If a nutrient value is missing for an ingredient, we show “Not scored” rather than assuming zero — so your score is never falsely inflated.

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