Who gets A's on their CC analysis pie? I want to know what that looks like.

Just started using the food analysis feature.  It's cool!  I get A- for the day with percentages as varied as carb/prot/fat 50/30/20; 40/25/35, and WOW my sodium's always really up there.  What percentages work for you guys who've used this feature for awhile?  This is a whole new world of great and interesting information to watch.

an A- is pretty good. there is no A+, is there? i dont think so. 

i can have an A- and then add a bunch of fresh veggies, like a salad with a few ingredients, and it will put me up to an A. it likes fresh veggies. 

it might be the sodium. that can bring a grade down. 

I get an A, but I have to put in a lot of my stuff, and I usually just throw the calories in there.

I haven't managed to identify the correlation between an 'A' and the macro nutrient breakdown yet!  I've had all kinds of daily percentages and they all seem to come up with an A, no problem.   I don't, as a rule, eat much processed food so maybe that has an impact.    I agree with bubbles556..... lots of vegetables is the key to a good grade.

Hi! My A days (I've had 3 since June 1st) have these ratio ranges (I am rounding): 50/20/30, 60/20/20, 50/20/30.  I have had days where my ratio is more 50/25/25, but those might be A- or B+ days.  On the first A day I consumed 146% the reccommended amount of sodium! The others it was less than 100%.  Usually my sodium levels are between 50 and a 100% of the reccommended level (sometimes a little less sometimes a little more).  My sat fat and cholesterol on A days is also pretty low (or it's healthy sat fat/cholesterol like from eggs or fish).  When my sat fat goes up is usually when my grade goes down.  My sugar is always through the roof! Always above the reccommended 50g...I eat a lot of fruits and veggies so I'm not worried about that.

Here's my info for the first 13 days of June...

My sodium is ALWAYS through the roof....if I cant quit chocolate AND salt!!! I tried to post the pie but it would post.

Nutrition Grade

Fat - 6.8% (33 grams)
Protein - 47.6% (522 grams)
Carbohydrates - 45.6% (501 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Calorie Intake - 333 cals
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,179 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 10 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 72 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 0 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 8 grams

What ARE the recommended amounts of sugar, fat, carbs, sodium, sat. fat and fiber?  Is it on this site somewhere or do we just research that independently?

when i used to log, i got As pretty regularly (probably because when i ate badly, i tended not to log ).  i honestly don't think there's any correlation between the overall grade and the macro breakdown.  i think if most of the individual foods you log are As, you'll get an A; if you log a bunch of B and lower foods, you'll get downgraded.

i'm pretty sure it's just an average.

Original Post by newdays18:

What ARE the recommended amounts of sugar, fat, carbs, sodium, sat. fat and fiber?  Is it on this site somewhere or do we just research that independently?

 The parameters usually recommended by the 'Ask Mary' section on CC for a balanced diet are .... 40-65% carbohydrate, 25-30% fats and 15-25% protein.  That leaves quite a lot of room for individual preference.   Sodium should be under 2400mg (or 6g salt).  Try to keep sugar under 50g and fibre over 25g (if you're female, 35g if you're male). 

Original Post by gi-jane:

Original Post by newdays18:

What ARE the recommended amounts of sugar, fat, carbs, sodium, sat. fat and fiber?  Is it on this site somewhere or do we just research that independently?

 The parameters usually recommended by the 'Ask Mary' section on CC for a balanced diet are .... 40-65% carbohydrate, 25-30% fats and 15-25% protein.  That leaves quite a lot of room for individual preference.   Sodium should be under 2400mg (or 6g salt).  Try to keep sugar under 50g and fibre over 25g (if you're female, 35g if you're male). 

 

I googled and like this site: http://www.netrition.com/rdi_page.html

It has reccommended amounts (based on a 2000cal diet) for everything...vitamins and minerals included.

I get As on days when I have lots of fruit and veg.  The grades, in large part, represent whether or not you're getting all your vitamins and minerals (not just the four in the summary box) and fruit/veg are the best ways to do that (plus dairy for the calcium).  Outside of that, your grade will drop if your sodium levels are too high (they're not supposed to be over 2500 mg/day though the analyzer will let you get away with a little higher if the rest is good) or your saturated fat or cholesterol is too high (again, there's a bit of leeway over the official maxima) or your sugar intake is crazy high (though it does let you get away with as much as 100 g sugar per day if it's mostly from natural sources that are full of vitamins/minerals).

From what I can tell, the grade has nothing to do with your macronutrient raio.  I can have an A partway into a day where I've consumed almost all my calories from one macronutrient (because I've only logged a couple of items so far), or I can have an A if I eat a nice balanced diet (which, for me, is between 40-30-30 and 50-25-25 carb-fat-protein).

I've been on this site for one week  now, I got one A- and the rest are As

My calorie limit is 1800 but my average is 1375

20% fat from

30% protein

50% carbs

7g saturated fat

33g fibre

though i think my salt's a little up

I've just started logging all my food again and I get an A whenever I have a lot of fruit and vegetables. I used to not log some vegetables because they had so few calories, like spinach and green onions, until I realized that it makes a big difference as far as what grade I get. It also helps me see that I'm getting all my vitamins/minerals etc.

I don't think there's such a thing as an A+ - at least I've never gotten one.

I almost always get A's. It's not based in the pie but on the advege grade of the food.

Ha ha ha.  I started eating a bunch of spinach and blueberries to see if I could go from an A- to an A.  Nothing doing.  I'm thinking it's the 2900 mg of sodium maybe or the 125 g of sugar. Saturated fat at 15 today.  It's fun though because I'm trying to get an A so I'm really paying attention and learning.  It's fun to consider more than just the calories.  Had me out buying more vegetables tonight and prepping/eating a big green salad. And after all that, there was NO WAY I was going to just pop a sugary granola bar in for a snack.  This is getting good.

Man, what's CC got against pepper jack cheese slices? D-  Geez. 

Original Post by newdays18:

Man, what's CC got against pepper jack cheese slices? D-  Geez. 

ya, there are a couple a things that the ratings are really goofy, but, for instance, vodka gets an F (not saying thats goofy). i can still have a drink or two every so often and if my day is strong in healthy choices, i still come away with an A or an A-. I have a lot of foods that get C's, but they aren't things that i'm eating half a pound of, cheese is maybe 2 or 3 oz max, so it really doesn't pull my grade down. its all about balance, my mantra, and balance tends to get a really good grade, even with a few C's in there. 

If I may post again....today I got a grade of an A.  Here are the stats:

Fat - 26.4% (54 grams)
Protein - 25.5% (118 grams)
Carbohydrates - 48.1% (223 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,507 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 93 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 661 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 16 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 34 grams

My cholesterol is 220% of the recommended amount! But it mostly came from the two hard boiled eggs I had for lunch (I think egg cholesterol is good cholesterol), the milk in my breakfast cereal, the yogurt I had for lunch (I also think dairy cholesterol is good cholesterol).  Then I had one chicken drumstick with skin and a thigh without the skin.

I figure...maybe...somewhere in the programming...CC knows where the nutrients came from? Prolly not....I'd prolly have gotten an A- if my sat fat was above 20 and some kind of B if my sodium were close to or above 2400.

It's all just a guideline.  If you feel healthy getting B+'s (which I do get sometimes) that's fine.  I have actually gotten some C+'s in the past, but I had perfectly reasonable foods.

Original Post by newdays18:

Man, what's CC got against pepper jack cheese slices? D-  Geez. 

What nutritional value do they have?  A smidge of protein and some calcium.  That gets counteracted by all the sodium (especially if we're talking processed cheese).  A D- doesn't mean you can't ever have that food; it means don't have a ton of it.  You can still get an A overall even if you had a serving (1 ounce) of pepper jack that day.

I just had 3.5 servings of fresh cherries as a post midnight snack (sleepwalker binge?) and ended up with 93 g of sugar already.  It must be a real trick to try to keep sugar under 50.  I'm not going to sweat it though when it's from fruit and dairy. I'm going to see if I can get an unqualified "A" today, just to be cheeky.  Also -- can you believe it-- diet A & W rootbeer has 100 mg of sodium.  So there I was logging in 300 mgs of sodium yesterday.  I knew something would motivate me eventually to get off the bad pop.  At least to think about it anyway. 

All day I've been wondering about GI Jane's  "Oh I get A's easily all the time."  Teacher's pet!  Seriously, I'd like to have a snapshot of your week's food GI Jane.  Bet it's delicious, varied, multi-colored and fresh.  Bet you don't drink lots of cans of diet pop.

There's no trick to getting A's. If you follow the basic food pyramid on servings of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, meats, etc. it always comes up A. Alcohol will knock it down. Mine also includes whole milk and a glass of wine every day and I get an A. High sodium, sat fat and cholesterol will knock it down. If you eat regular fruit I find it impossible to stay less than the daily sugar allowance and as long as my sugar is coming from fruit I ignore that and still get A's. My carb/protein/fat are in the 50/25/25 range.

Bottom line: i use this to prepare what I'll eat the next day and I change it until it gets to be A i.e. I won't eat a diet unless I get an A from the analysis. 

Original Post by nenebug:

Here's my info for the first 13 days of June...

My sodium is ALWAYS through the roof....if I cant quit chocolate AND salt!!! I tried to post the pie but it would post.

Nutrition Grade

Fat - 6.8% (33 grams)
Protein - 47.6% (522 grams)
Carbohydrates - 45.6% (501 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Calorie Intake - 333 cals
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,179 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 10 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 72 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 0 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 8 grams

 

Did no one else spot this? Nenebug, you best be joking.