How ClearEaty scores food

Every ClearEaty score is built from the ingredient list on the package, and every score shows its reasoning. Here is what moves the number.

One number, out of ten

1 is the worst and 10 is the best. A 10 means nothing on the label held the food back — if anything counted against it, it cannot score 10.

The worst ingredient caps the score

Averaging is how a single bad ingredient hides. If a food contains an ingredient ClearEaty flags, that ingredient sets a ceiling on the score instead of being diluted by everything else on the label.

How processed the food is

A clean-looking ingredient list is not the same as a healthy food. ClearEaty accounts for how heavily processed a product is, so roasted peanuts and frozen fries are not treated as equals just because both lists are short.

Sugar, saturated fat and salt

Where nutrition data is available, high sugar, saturated fat and salt levels pull the score down, using the UK Food Standards Agency traffic-light thresholds.

Ingredients that are not counted

Water and added vitamins carry no health signal either way. ClearEaty shows them as “not counted” rather than letting them quietly lift an average.

Every score explains itself

Each rule that fired is shown alongside the score, and every ingredient gets its own rating, so you can see exactly which line on the back of the packet cost it.

What a score is not

A ClearEaty score is our own opinion of how clean a food’s ingredient list is. It is not medical or dietary advice, not a safety verdict, and not a claim about any brand. Dietary labels such as vegan or halal are read from the manufacturer’s own package claims, never guessed.

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