Loading…
How many minutes of healthy life does this food add or subtract, on average, if it shows up in a typical day's eating? HENI takes the best-known links between food and disease, and turns each serving into a number of minutes you can feel in your bones.
Build the food list, pick serving sizes, and get the total minutes added or subtracted. You can break the result down by which foods drove it.
All scores runs health impact alongside healthy eating, Food Compass, star ratings, environment, and eating style on the same list of foods. Different questions, one page.
A few published per-serving examples to set the scale. Positive numbers add time. Negative numbers subtract. Most foods sit close to zero. A single serving rarely moves the needle on its own. It is the day, the week, and the year that add up.
HENI runs on the same food catalogue used by every other tool here. The Canadian Nutrient File supplies most of it, and the FAO West African Food Composition Table covers staples like fonio, baobab pulp, and dried fish. When a West African food shows up in your meal, the researcher view flags the small measurement differences so nothing slips by quietly.
The numbers stay the same. The story around them changes. The everyday view gives you the minutes in plain English. The researcher view breaks the minutes down across the fifteen factors and shows the coefficients behind them. The policy view frames the same numbers for procurement, taxation, and food-environment work.
HENI answers “how many minutes?”. HEFI answers “does this line up with Canada's Food Guide?”. HSR answers “is this product better than the others next to it on the shelf?”. The all scores page runs all six in one go.
HENI was developed by Stylianou and colleagues and published in Nature Food in 2021. It builds on the Global Burden of Disease food research and on earlier life-cycle work that combined nutrition and environmental impact in a single frame.