What is your Meal Score?
Your Meal Score is an analysis of your glucose response and quality of your meals, snacks and drinks. It gives you a snapshot of how your metabolism is functioning. Your metabolism is how well your body breaks down food and uses it as energy.
How your Meal Score is calculated
Your Meal Score is calculated based on the average of your Glucose Score and your Food Quality Score, and is a score out of 10.
Glucose Score
When you log your food, we analyse your CGM readings for the 2 hours post-meal.
Your Glucose Score takes into account:
How steady your glucose response is
How high your glucose rises and how quickly it rises from your baseline
How long it takes to drop back down post-meal
Your Glucose Score is out of 10 — the higher the better.
The optimal range for your glucose is between 4-6mmol/L. While it is normal to be between 4-7.8mmol/L, we are aiming for optimal metabolic health, so the range is tighter.
Food Quality Score
When you log your food, we analyse the ingredients and nutritional information of the food and drinks.
Your Food Quality Score takes into account:
The nutritional value of the meal, including the carb, fat, protein and fibre content
How processed or non-processed is the ingredient
Is there any alcohol in the meal
Your Food Quality Score is out of 10 — the higher the better.
The optimal Food Quality Score is above 9, but it's ok to dip below that every now and then. We provide labels on the ingredient level to help you understand whether you can enjoy the food as much as you like, moderate it as part of a healthy diet, or limit the intake or it.
Things to be mindful of
Your Meal Score is only one measure of health, and doesn’t necessarily take into account factors such as your medical history, fitness levels and requirements, or any other personal information.
Your Meal Score is influenced by all items consumed over the 2 hour time period. This means that all items in that meal log will be calculated as part of the score. However, if you don't log a particular ingredient, we won't be able to analyse that.
For example, say you log a meal consisting of fish with side salad, then have a full-sugar soda 15 minutes later but you don't log that. The meal itself may have had a Meal score of 10/10 in isolation, but due to the soda, it might receive a lower glucose score, like 6/10.
If you have more questions about the food score, please reach out to Member Support at contact@vively.com.au