Question 1

How is the Bazu Score calculated?

Accepted Answer

Every food starts near the top, then the score reads its nutrition: it adds credit for fiber, protein, and good fats, and subtracts for sugar, the carb load a serving actually delivers, saturated fat, sodium, and empty calorie density. A few ingredients the label can't show, refined starches, added phosphates, artificial sweeteners, and deep-frying, move it too. It all lands on one number from 0 to 100, higher is better.

Question 2

Is a food's Bazu Score the same for everyone?

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Yes. A food's score is universal, the same for everyone. Your overall score is the average of your last 30 days of meals.

Question 3

What makes a food score high?

Accepted Answer

Whole, balanced foods that are gentle on blood sugar, with fiber and protein and little added sugar, score highest. Fried, sugary, and calorie-dense refined foods score lowest.

Question 4

What does it take to score 100?

Accepted Answer

Almost no carb load, and nothing on the label worth billing against it: plain vegetables, eggs, fish and shellfish, plain yogurt. Most everyday foods land well below that, and the ceilings mean a deep-fried or heavily refined food can never reach the top however good the rest of its panel reads.

Question 5

Do artificial sweeteners lower the score?

Accepted Answer

They do. A diet cola lands around 79 where the regular one bottoms out at 0, because the sugar it avoids is a metabolic fact the score has to honor. But the WHO advises against non-sugar sweeteners for long-term health, so any product carrying one gives up as much as 15 points, half the weight the score gives sugar itself. Plant-based sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit take no strike, and neither do allulose or erythritol. The Ingredients check names every sweetener it finds.

Question 6

Do meals score differently than single foods?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A meal is scored as the sum of everything on the plate, so one cup of rice counts the same whether you log it as one entry or two. Putting whole foods together helps: chicken and broccoli next to the rice dilute its refined carbs and add protein and fiber, so the plate scores better than the rice alone. Protein and fiber are what soften a plate, fat never is: the same dish fried can never out-score it steamed. Drinks are the exception, a sugary drink can only ever pull a meal down, never lift it.

Question 7

What counts as ultra-processed?

Accepted Answer

The ingredient list decides, not the bag. A snack made from a food, oil, and salt is not junk, even packaged. Most additives, colors, preservatives, and emulsifiers, are named and tiered on the separate Ingredients check and never touch the score. Only the handful that change how a food behaves in ways the label can't show, refined starches, maltitol, added phosphates, isolated fibers, industrially refined fats, and artificial sweeteners, actually move the number.

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