Making better choices
You can use the Better Choices tool on Nutrition Data to give your diet a nutritional upgrade. (And if you're trying to lose weight, Better choices can help with that too!).
For every food you eat, there are likely to be similar foods that are more nutritious. By "more nutritious," we mean that they contain more essential nutrients and/or less saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium per calorie. We consider these to be Better Choices for Optimum Health. There are also similar foods that are both more nutritious and will fill you up for fewer calories. We consider these foods Better Choices for Weight Loss.
When you track your diet using the My Tracking tool, the analysis report includes a list of all the foods you've eaten that day. Next to each food you'll find Better Choices links.
For example, yesterday, you might have had some frozen corn with dinner. If you click on Better Choices for Optimum Health (and then choose the "vegetable" category), you'll find that there are 597 vegetable choices that are more nutritious than corn. Choosing any one of these as a substitute for corn will be a step in the right direction! For example, you could choose asparagus, kale, or zucchini instead of corn.
If you're trying to lose weight, click the Better Choices for Weight Loss instead for a list of foods that are both more nutritious and more filling per calorie.
Each Better Choice you make will improve the nutritional quality of your diet and can also make it easier to lose weight.
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