Food Grade Meter

Can anyone explain how this system grades the food you consume?  I use sweet acidophilus milk and I wanted to enter in Kroger's brand which has less calories, fat, sugar and the whole nine yards so to speak and the system gave it a D+.  The brands already listed in the systems have more of everything and the system is giving them B ratings.  Yes, the amounts are the same.

it's happened to me to. i can't figure that out either why something with less fat less sugar and less calories gets a worst rating.. something is not right here.

it's happened to me to. i can't figure that out either why something with less fat less sugar and less calories gets a worst rating.. something is not right here.

sorry about the double post

I also would like to understand better how the grades are calculated.

This morning I had a combination of 1 serving oatmeal, 1 serving grits and 2 servings 2% lowfat milk. So I created my own food entry.

This is information from the system:

1. Oatmeal grades A.
2. Grits grades C+.
3. 2% fat milk grades A-.

Combined this would be my breakfast, and the system grades it only a C.

A+A+C+=C 

I think that's because when you use the analysis feature, it treats the food you've entered as if it was for the whole day. So if you enter a meal then analyze it, it thinks that's all you had that day, so if you didn't get a day's worth of essential nutrients in that one meal you'll get a low grade. But the individual food items are graded on the nutrients vs. the number of calories in that item. So even 3 A-graded items could still make a C-grade together, because you would need to eat more than that in a day. Make sense?

Make sense?

I wanted to test your logic by multiplying the amounts until I reached my daily amount of calories.

So, I started by logging the same foods this morning (empty log), and I get a different rapport now: B+

Would the report card depend on the weather too?

Clairelaine explains it elegantly in this post:

http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/post/605 24.html#4

If the grade is an average, then (A)+(A)+(C+) should be more than the calculated C. At least that's how I think it should work?