Tuft’s (Junk) Food Compass Is Worse Than We Thought

If you rely on the Food Compass to choose what to eat, chronic disease awaits. It suggests you'll be healthier if you replace eggs, cheddar cheese and ground beef with sugary cereal and candy.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The Food Compass, unveiled in 2021, claims to be a science-based tool to rank the healthfulness of foods, but actually promotes ultraprocessed junk

• Its lead author, Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, has close ties to the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Economic Forum (WEF), while…