Why does Calorie Count Plus have Reeses Pieces as a recommended food?

I don't get it. It's candy and it isn't healthy.

I don't get that either.  I drink "not from concentrate" orange juice and it recommends orange juice from concentrate.  I eat toasted wheat germ and it recommends "honey crunch" wheat germ.  I stopped looking stuff up but I still notice the pop up every once in a while. 

"Although Reese's Pieces are listed among the 'chocolate-based' candies as well as 'confectionery' candies on the Hershey's website, they do not contain any chocolate."

8g of saturated fat. 24g of sugar. Only 5g of protein per serving. There is nothing healthy about that.

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The site does not make 'healthy' food recommendations... all that little box is is a randomly-generated listing of foods similar to ones that you have said that you've eaten. I like cereal and had plain shredded wheat this week, so the listing today says frosted shredded wheat... I had some chocolate, so it says M&Ms etc. They're not healthy, they're just in the same food groups as things that I've eaten. It would be very useful if it could really recommend HEALTHIER alternatives to what you ate, but I suspect that would take far too much programming.

AMEN, kajikit!!!  I would love for this site to recommend healthier food that is similar to what I'm eating.

I hate their recommendations.  I ate raw almonds for a mid day snack and it recommended honey roasted salted almonds.  Silly CC.

Original Post by sroscoe:

I hate their recommendations. I ate raw almonds for a mid day snack and it recommended honey roasted salted almonds. Silly CC.

Amen :D I take everything CC recommends with(out) a grain of salt.

It recommends some things that are good, and some things I could live without. Just like any of your friends not on diets, it's not perfect for your lifestyle some times.

Haha, yeah I agree.  I wish it would provide healthy alternatives like it says it does.  I haven't logged a piece of candy in a week and it still recommends Reese's, lol.

Haha...I always wondered why it tells me to drink 2% milk instead of skim.  I though maybe there was something extra in it that might be good.  Good to know it's just similar foods.

I think we should all request CC's developers to create a healthy recommendation tool. I know in the past they have been very responsive to reports of any problems.

I ignore the recommendations because I figure the site and its tools are free. It makes money from ads - this is how the entire About.com portal works. If I were paying for it I would then demand they provide healthy choices for food and even the ads that suggest various diets.

But if we ask nicely, who knows they may write a few lines of code to ensure that only healthy grade A products get the recommendation :)

btw, I'm a developer and know that it would be a fairly simple change to allow only grade A recommendations for food products. Since items are graded and stored in the database, all they would have to do is put a check in to see if the item is of a particular grade or grades (maybe you'd like A-C items) and it will then only display those :)

I agree with everyone, Reese Pieces are so very unhealthy, CC should recommend a Dark Chocolate bar such as Hershey Dark Almond.  I notice that too that it make recommendations totally out to lunch sometimes.

It is probably sponsors foods. They most likely get paid for the ads.

Seems like certain products would just not have any variety that has a grade A.  I think I'd just want recommendations to have a grade better than what I'm doing.  The only concern on their part might be accidental endorsement of certain products to the whole lot of us.  If it says one brand is better for me than the other, I know I'd switch.  But, it'd be nice to know.

abunaimah, it should be just as easy to just recommendations that have a better grade, wouldn't it?

That's to funny.