EWG’s “Rate Your Plate” is Here!
More than three years in the making, EWG’s Food Scores: Rate Your Plate, the most comprehensive food database available today, is ready to help guide you to healthier, greener and cleaner food choices.
This easy-to-use online food database and mobile app is designed to revolutionize the way we shop and eat. With information on more than 80,000 foods and 5,000 ingredients from 1,500 brands, EWG’s unique scoring system rates foods based on nutrition, food additives, contaminants and degree of processing.
You’ll be sure to find some things that will surprise you. For one, did you know that stuffing is one of the products most likely to contain added sugar? About as likely to have added sugar as candy, ice cream and cookies, in fact! Something to keep in mind during your Thanksgiving shopping this year.
With information on more than 80,000 food products at your fingertips, you’re bound to learn a lot more. So what are you waiting for?!
Here’s to smarter shopping!
Source: Environmental Working Group