The Basics: Nutrition Score
A simple, science-backed way to understand how your daily food choices support long-term health.
What is the Nutrition Score?
Your Nutrition Score is a daily number from 1-100 that reflects the overall quality of your eating patterns. The score looks at the balance of your day, showing you how each food contributes positively or negatively to your score, providing a clear picture of how your food choices support long-term health.
How it Works
Your day starts with a locked score. Once enough calories are logged, your Nutrition Score appears and begins updating as you add meals or snacks throughout the day. It is made up of two parts:
Food Quality Contributors
You can earn or lose points based on Food Quality Contributors, such as vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, processed meat or excess sugar. These contributors are shown on each food log, so you can see at a glance how your food shapes your score.
Glucose Impact
If you use a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), your Glucose Impact will contribute to this score, helping you understand both what you ate and how your body responded. If you don't use a CGM, your score will be based on Food Quality Contributors alone.
Why Trust the Score?
The Nutrition Score is grounded in decades of evidence from leading international health organizations and long-term nutrition studies. One of the primary research models behind the score is the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI), created by nutrition scientists at Harvard (Harvard Health Publishing, 2022). This index has been studied in hundreds of thousands of adults and consistently shows that higher-quality eating patterns are linked with significantly lower risk of major chronic diseases.
People with the highest AHEI-aligned eating patterns have been shown to have:
- 20-40% lower risk of cardiovascular disease
- 33% lower risk of type 2 diabetes
- Lower risk of several cancers
- Lower overall mortality
These findings are echoed by guidelines from the World Health Organization, USDA and EU, which emphasize the same core habits: more whole plant foods, fewer ultra-processed items, and balanced intake across the day. Bevel's Nutrition Score brings these patterns into a simple, daily number that's easy to digest and act on.
Getting the Most Out of Your Score
Your Nutrition Score is designed to guide you toward a healthier, more balanced way of eating. Here are a few simple ways to get the most value from it:
- Log meals consistently. The more complete your day is, the more helpful your score will be.
- Notice your patterns. Which contributors are showing up a lot? Which ones rarely appear?
- Zoom out. Daily scores may fluctuate, so weekly or monthly trends will give you the clearest picture of where your nutrition is generally trending.
- If using a CGM, connect the dots. Notice how different foods, portions or meal timing affect your glucose and score.
- Pay attention to how you feel. Energy, mood, sleep and cravings often align with your eating habits.
