Make food quality easier to explore.
Food is more than calories, but no single score can decide what is right for every person. We built HBI to make a broader set of food-data signals easier to see.
Ask whether a food is healthy and you get chaos: one headline says it’s a superfood, the next says it’s killing you, and your tracking app answers a different question entirely — how many calories it has. Calories measure energy. They do not summarize nutrient density, processing, fibre, fermentation, mineral balance, or food-compound research.
Nutrition research contains useful composition data and many levels of evidence, from human trials to early mechanistic work. Turning that into a consumer model requires judgment, transparent limits, and ongoing review—not just a large database.
So we built the score we wished existed: every food represented across eight weighted dimensions and four bounded adjustments, collapsed into one directional 0–100 beta number, with reviewed sources added only as they clear the human evidence queue. Not a diet. Not a guilt machine. A clearer model view.
Make food-quality signals legible—without pretending one number knows the whole person.
One useful signal per food. Research that earns its place. Every bite, scored.
The score is simple because the data isn’t.
Behind the single number sits a substantial structured nutrition database. Its compound and pathway mappings are being moved through a stricter human evidence-review process.
The idea is simple: put the complexity in the data so the app can stay calm. The database is structured and queryable; external calibration and the food-to-paper relevance queue are still launch work, so the number is labelled as beta.
What we believe.
Four ideas shape every score, every screen, and every word we publish.
Depth made simple
The complexity lives in the model so the app can stay calm. You get one directional number, with eight weighted dimensions and four adjustments available underneath.
Longevity over dieting
We include food-composition and healthy-aging research inputs while stating clearly that the current score is directional, not clinical.
Celebration, not shame
Food is one of the good things. HBI is built to reward what you add and the colours you hit, never to scold you for what you ate.
Graded, not hyped
We distinguish human, observational, animal, and cell evidence. Specific citations remain private until both the paper identity and the food-specific claim have been reviewed.
Who’s behind it.
Healthy Body Index is built by Xpand Digital, a product studio that builds data-heavy software. We’re not a supplement company and we don’t sell meal plans — HBI has no products to push and no reason to flatter any food. The score is the product, so the score has to be honest.
Use HBI on the web today, or join the list for iPhone beta updates.