Allen PikeA Score for Snacks: The trouble with snacks, the Nutri-Score, and a calculator.
First win from this little project: a friend discovered their seaweed snacks are 2/3 sugar by weight 🙈
Alex Onsager@apike Really cool project! I’m almost afraid to use it 🙃
@alex Ha, well if you try it and see any bugs or learn anything let me know!
Khürt Williams@apike You’re basically workshopping the best way to eat junk food. 😁
Most so-called snacks these days are just junk in nicer packaging. A real snack? Fruit, nuts, maybe some carrots and broccoli—that’s what my kids got. And let’s be honest, kids don’t buy the snacks. We do. If we’re not modeling the habits we want them to learn, they won’t.
Allan Jackson@apike Nothing against your calculator, but if the underlying scale thinks larabars are unhealthy, it needs some serious work! The regular peanuts & dates ones are on our family's list of healthy foods the kids can have for any snacktime.
@allanjackson Yeah I was surprised by that too. The thinking is that nuts and dried dates are very high calorie by weight and volume, so they're less filling than you'd hope and therefore correlated with people eating more total calories.
But also if you eat any of these bars you're probably also gonna drink some water which they don't factor in.