Measuring Nutrient Density Made Easy

Nutrition improvement should be more than educated guesses. Griffith Foods’ customized nutrient density calculator gives you an objective, science-backed score of your product’s overall nutritional quality so you can make reformulation decisions with clarity, speed, and credibility.
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How We Calculate Nutrition

Our experts will work with you to calculate the nutrient density of your product to grade its nutritional score and identify optimizations you can make to improve its impact.
Our approach leverages the Nutrient Rich Foods Index—validated and cited in over 1,000 studies—to provide you with a more objective way to assess nutritional value. We also assess against existing regional systems such as HFSS, Nutri-Score and Health Star ratings.

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What the Nutrient Density Calculator Does for You

We work alongside your team to identify opportunities to improve nutrient density—whether you’re renovating an existing product or building something new.

Identify Trade-Offs

Reducing sodium might improve one component of the score, while adding fiber could impact another. Our analysis surfaces those trade-offs upfront so you’re optimizing the whole product, not just one attribute.

Validate Nutritional Impact

We quantify nutritional improvement with an objective score that can be used internally to guide decisions and externally to support communications and product positioning.

Support Formulation Decisions

We rank finished dishes and evaluate nutrients per serving and per 100 kcal. This gives your R&D and culinary teams a clear target to work toward, reducing time to market.

Other Nutrient Profiling Systems

From Nutri-Score and HFSS in Europe to Health Star Ratings and front-of-pack systems across Asia Pacific and the Americas, our nutrient density expertise can help you understand how reformulation decisions translate into real-world label outcomes across the markets you operate in.

Account for Fortification

Unlike some scoring systems, the Nutrient Rich Foods Index incorporates nutrient fortification into the score. This gives a more complete and accurate picture of your product’s nutritional value, particularly for enriched or fortified products.

Our Griffith Foods Nutrition Team leverages their knowledge of nutrition science, trends, and the regulatory landscape and collaborates with customers to support the development of more nutrient dense options that are relevant and desired by consumers. By calculating the nutrient density of the end product, the overall nutritional quality is optimized while balancing aspects that our customers and consumers prefer.

Jackie Shulz, MS, RD
Senior Director of Global Nutrition

Customer Case Studies

Discover how companies like yours thrive with Griffith Foods’ innovation and partnership.

Sodium Reduction in Beef Burger

Improved front-of-pack nutrition label while maintaining great taste.

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Alt Protein Sodium Reduction

Optimized the product’s nutrition profile to qualify for a Nutri-Score A.

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EU Sandwich HFSS Improvement

Reformulated a top-selling sandwich to improve Nutri-Score and reclassify as Non-HFSS.

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Nutritious Beverage Powder

Supporting child and maternal nutrition through affordable, scalable solutions.

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Unlock Smarter Nutrition for Your Products

Want to know more about how Griffith Foods’ nutrient density calculator can elevate your products’ nutrition? Download the information sheet today.

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FAQs with Dr. Drewnowski

We sat down with Dr. Adam Drewnowski, developer of the Nutrient Rich Foods Index, to go over some commonly-asked questions about this methodology.

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