About FoodRef.ai

What We Do

Ask "Is avocado healthy?" and you will get a different answer from a keto enthusiast, a vegan, and a cardiologist. They are all working from legitimate dietary frameworks — they just disagree. FoodRef.ai makes that disagreement visible and useful.

We rate every food against 11 major dietary frameworks — Keto, Paleo, Mediterranean, Vegan, Carnivore, Whole30, DASH, Zone, Low-FODMAP, Anti-Inflammatory, and GLP-1 Friendly — and aggregate the results into a single composite score. Think of it like Rotten Tomatoes, but instead of film critics, our "reviewers" are dietary philosophies. The composite score tells you the consensus. The controversy index tells you how much they fight about it.

Why This Exists

Nutrition information online is fragmented, contradictory, and often agenda-driven. A keto blog will tell you butter is a superfood. A vegan site will call it poison. Both cite studies. Neither is lying — they are just applying different frameworks.

FoodRef.ai does not pick a side. We show you all 10 sides at once, so you can make your own call. Every rating comes with reasoning, source citations, and a controversy index that tells you how debated the food really is.

How It Works

Ratings are generated using AI models with diet-specific system prompts that encode each framework's published rules. Nutrition data comes from the USDA FoodData Central database. All outputs are validated by a Registered Dietitian on our Advisory Board. For full details, see our Methodology page.

Contact

Found an inaccurate rating? Want to join our advisory board? Have a partnership idea? We would love to hear from you.