The Definitive Food Index

A new Food Index has evolved which gives help in choosing the best foods at the cheapest prices.

It also helps with your five-a-day plan .

It illustrates that the expensive foods are not always the best in value where your body and your budget are concerned.

Broccoli is rated at 100 on the percentage scale whereas expensive Lobster comes in lower down at 36.

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This is a definite case for being very selective when you are on a tight budget, and this research makes your search for cheap, nutritious foods so much easier.

The highest rated food, broccoli, scores 100, working downwards to an ice lolly which scores only 1.

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At first sight there would appear to be some peculiarities in the this Food Index, but there are reasons.

Lobster scores below other sea foods(36) because of the salt content and low level of healthy omega-3 fats.

Seafood lovers may look longingly at Oysters – they score well (81) because of the high levels of zinc, protein and omega-3 fats.

Raisins outscore olives but only when they are unsweetened.

All in all, while the various schemes by the Food Standards Agency and the others by the supermarkets can appear in conflict with each other, this Food Index seems to be a far more sensible, unbiased and rational system.

This new Index is the brainchild of Dr. David Katz, Director of Yale University-Griffin Hospital Prevention Research Centre and is independent of the food industry. Scientists from Oxford University assisted Dr. Katz with his methodology.

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