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What is the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI)?
The ONQI is a food scoring system that makes it easy for consumers to evaluate the nutritional quality of foods, beverages and recipes at-a-glance. Developed by top nutrition experts, the ONQI uses the latest science to provide a single score for any food or recipe.

How is an ONQI score determined?
The ONQI takes 30 different nutrient factors into account when developing a score, making it the most robust food rating system in the market today. Factors included in determining the score for any food, beverage or recipe include: vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrates, fat, antioxidants and other nutrients found in that food, beverage or recipe.

What will an ONQI score look like?
Plans call for expressing an ONQI score on a scale of 1 to 100.

Does the ONQI identify “good” foods and “bad” foods?
Rather than characterize any food as good or bad, the ONQI provides a score that reflects the relative nutritional value both across food categories and within specific food categories, such as breads or frozen desserts. In fact, the ONQI literally lets you compare apples to oranges (and on nutritional value, oranges win). Because the same criteria is applied, all foods can be measured.

What’s the benefit to consumers?
The ONQI empowers the average consumer to choose foods on the basis of their overall nutritional quality with ease and confidence.

When will consumers see the ONQI in action?
It’s expected that the ONQI will be available through thousands of retail grocery stores – on product packaging and point-of-purchase displays – beginning in the second half of 2008. A list of product food scores is also expected to be available online.

How will I know where to find the ONQI?
Starting this Fall, consumers will be able to find out which stores, restaurants and products will be using the ONQI system by checking the ONQI Web site, www.ONQI.com. The information will be updated regularly, so consumers should check the site often.

100 Broccoli

100 Blueberries

100 Orange

100 Green Beans

100 Pineapple

99 Radish

98 Summer Squash

96 Apple

96 Tomatoes

96 Green Cabbage

94 Watermelon

93 Mango

91 Nonfat Milk

91 Grapes

91 Bananas

89 Avocado

88 Oatmeal

83 Blackberries

82 Sockeye Salmon

82 Raw Almonds

82 Brown Rice

82 Snapper

81 1% Milk

75 Shrimp

72 Couscous

69 Unbuttered, Unsalted Popcorn

67 Canned Tuna in oil

63 Vegetarian Spilt Pea Soup Mix

61 Instant Oatmeal

60 Canned Pineapple

57 White Rice

56 Sodium Free Club Soda

55 2% Milk

51 Scallops

50 Pasta

49 Canned Peas

45 Prunes

44 NY Strip Steak

43 Vanilla Yogurt

39 Orange Juice

39 Skinless Chicken Breast

36 Lobster

34 Dried Apples

32 Tomato Juice

29 Enriched White Bread

28 Whole Chicken with Skin

26 Raisins

25 Hamburger 75% lean

24 Green olives

23 Bagel

23 Condensed Tomato Soup

23 Peanut Butter

23 Sherbet

22 Reduced Fat Sour Cream

21 Salted Dryroasted Peanuts

20 Instant Chocolate Pudding

18 Fried Egg

17 Swiss Cheese

16 Diet Soda

13 Center Cut Bacon

11 Pretzel Sticks

10 Dark Chocolate

9 White Bread

7 Salami

5 Hot Dog

3 Milk Chocolate

2 Apple Pie

2 Saltine Crackers

1 Soda

1 Popsicle

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