How does the Nutrition Grader work

Hi,

I am new here and hoping someone can explain how the nutrition grader works. I keep consistently getting a C grade. How do I figure out what I need more of, or what I need less of to do better?

There's an explantion in the FAQs, found on the home page

Nutrition Grade

Each food is given a grade based on nutritional value.  The number of calories has nothing to do with the grade.  Your overall grade is an average of all the grades of all the foods you logged, weighted according to the quantity you ate.  So a tablespoon of olive oil, graded D, wouldn't count as much as a cup of broccoli, graded A.

You can improve your grade by choosing foods with high grades.  Since I don't know what you ate to get the C, it's hard to say what you need to do to bring your grade up.  As a rule of thumb, if you eat enough vegetables it's pretty hard to get a low grade.  Try for 5 servings (1/2 to 1 cup each) of green and yellow vegetables.  Bonus - they are low in calories so you get to eat lots!

The problem with the grader is that it IS an average. So a food that's very high in fat might get a C, but a food that has a lot of carbs and no fat is also a C. Average the grades together, and even though your totals for the day are good, the average of the grades is a C.

Short answer, try not to look at the letter and just concentrate on getting the numbers in line - 25% fat, 25% protein, 50% carbs is a good starting point.