Sentences with phrase «definitive health index»

The foundation's system purports to categorize a food with space - age precision and assign to it a single numerical value that denotes its ultimate healthfulness.The model may not be the perfect tool the nutrition community dreams of, but now that the U.K.is pushing ahead with its plan, this purportedly definitive health index is now affecting the messages about food — and, presumably, the food itself — that kids consume.