Publications

Food Compass Score-10: validation of a method for evaluating the healthfulness of foods and beverages using ingredient list information

Eden M. Barrett, Frederick Cudhea, Erin Washbon, Zoe Levitan, Julia Reedy Sharib, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Renata Micha & Dariush Mozaffarian. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.03.015
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Food Compass 2.0 is an improved nutrient profiling system to characterize healthfulness of foods and beverages

Eden M. Barrett, Peilin Shi, Jeffrey B. Blumberg, Meghan O’Hearn, Renata Micha & Dariush Mozaffarian. Nature Food. doi: 10.1038/s43016-024-01053-3
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The Longitudinal Effect of Ultra-Processed Food on the Development of Dyslipidemia/Obesity as Assessed by the NOVA System and Food Compass Score

Li-Juan Tan, Su Bin Hwang, Sangah Shin. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. doi: 10.1002/mnfr.202300003
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Validation of Food Compass with a healthy diet, cardiometabolic health, and mortality among U.S. adults, 1999–2018

Meghan O’Hearn, Joshua Erndt-Marino, Suzannah Gerber, Brianna N. Lauren, Christina Economos, John B. Wong, Jeffrey B. Blumberg & Dariush Mozaffarian. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34195-8
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Reply to: Food Compass novelty and NOVA category assignments

Dariush Mozaffarian, Meghan O’Hearn, Naglaa H. El-Abbadi, Jeffrey B. Blumberg & Renata Micha. Nature Food doi: 10.1038/s43016-022-00557-0
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Food Compass is a nutrient profiling system using expanded characteristics for assessing healthfulness of foods.

Dariush Mozaffarian, Naglaa H. El-Abbadi, Meghan O’Hearn, Josh Erndt-Marino, William A. Masters, Paul Jacques, Peilin Shi, Jeffrey B. Blumberg & Renata Micha. Nature Food doi: 10.1038/s43016-021-00381-y
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The Tufts Food Compass