It's understandable to feel confused when you see a difference between your Diet Score and your meal or day scores.

Your ZOE diet score looks at your overall eating pattern over time, while meal and day scores focus on shorter-term nutritional quality. The diet score takes into account additional factors that aren't captured in individual food or meal scores, such as your plant diversity and the balance of nutrients in your diet over a longer period.

For example, you might have high-scoring meals made up of nutritious foods, but if your diet lacks variety or balance over time, this could result in a lower diet score. Think of it like this: eating an avocado is great (and would score highly), but a diet of only avocados wouldn't be balanced or diverse enough for optimal health.

Both your meal scores and your Diet Score provide valuable insights. Day and meal scores help guide your day-to-day choices, whereas the diet score is designed to give you a broader view of your eating habits and help guide you towards a more balanced, diverse, and nutritious overall diet. It's another tool to support you on your health journey, complementing the insights you get from your meal and day scores.

Your ZOE Diet Score is a comprehensive measure of your overall diet quality, calculated on a scale from 1 to 100. It's designed to give you a broader view of your eating habits beyond individual food scores.

Your Diet Score takes into account several key factors:

Each of these factors contributes to your overall score, reflecting different aspects of a healthy, balanced diet. The score is tailored to your health profile, similar to how your food scores are personalized.

The Diet Score is an exciting new feature that offers a more comprehensive view of your overall diet quality compared to providing an weekly average of your day scores. The diet score offers:

We made the intentional change to only show your 'Diet Score' the day after you've logged all of your meals in the ZOE 2.0 app.

Your Diet Score will be available under the 'Diet' tab. It shows how yesterday's food choices set your body up for today. It's a simple way to understand the connection between what you eat and how your body feels, guiding you to make smarter choices for your body and gut so you can feel better and support overall health.

We calculate your Diet Score using all the meals and snacks you add to the ZOE app on the previous day, along with your steps & sleep. When you snap all your meals and snacks consistently, we get a clearer picture of your diet. This helps us give you a more accurate and useful score that reflects how your food choices are setting you up for today.

In case it helps, here's why we made this change:

Diet quality is a marathon not a sprint - We don't believe in the value of the score until either 2 meals or 1200 calories are logged. The targets will still be populated on the diet screen and members will be able to see how they are doing against each of the targets, however we require a minimum amount of logs before we can accurately calculate a diet quality assessment.

Actionability vs interpretability - We want the score to be a reflection of a complete day's logs so that it can provide actionable insights on how to achieve a higher score the next day. It will also highlight the key areas that members can focus on improving going forward. Showing the score on the same day might not yield as valuable actionable insights. For example most people tend to consume more carbs than protein for breakfast, this does not necessarily mean the app should be advising them to reduce their carb intake overall.

Diet as a fuel - We believe diet is the most important factor in helping our bodies prepare for the day ahead. The diet score gives an indication of how what I ate yesterday will impact my body today and how I can prepare for the day ahead. A new feature is coming soon to help our members with the latter, so keep an eye out on app updates.