health-star-rating

Calculate the ANZ health star rating of food given nutritional information

Calculates the health star rating of foods based on Australian Government guidelines.

Use the web calculator here

Install

npm install health-star-rating

Usage

import { Attributes, Category, calculateHealthStarRating } from 'health-star-rating';

calculateHealthStarRating(Category.DairyFoods, {
  totalSugarsGrams: 33,
  energykJ: 1100,
  sodiumMilligrams: 100,
  saturatedFatGrams: 0,
});
//=> 1

calculateHealthStarRating(Category.NonDairyBeverages, {
  energykJ: 0,
  saturatedFatGrams: 7,
  sodiumMilligrams: 400,
  totalSugarsGrams: 0,
  attributes: [Attributes.ContainsFruitOrVegetable],
  percentageFruitVegetableNutLegume: 25,
});
//=> 4

calculateHealthStarRating(Category.OtherFoods, {
  saturatedFatGrams: 10.5,
  sodiumMilligrams: 400,
  totalSugarsGrams: 10.5,
  energykJ: 3100,
  fibreGrams: 7,
});
//=> 1.5

API

calculateHealthStarRating(category, nutritionalInformation)

returns

One of the following values will be returned:

0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5

category

Type: Category

Category of the food. Use the most specific category possible.

These are the possible categories:

• DairyBeverages
• DairyFoods
  • "This category does not include ice cream or alternatives derived from cereals, nuts or seeds. These products fall in [OtherFoods]."
• FatsOilsAndSpreads
  • Includes: edible oil, edible oil spreads, margarine, butter
• Cheese
• PlainWater
• UnsweetenedFlavouredWater
  • May only contain -- carbon dioxide, flavouring substances (excluding sugar/sweeteners), mineral salts, safety/stability additives.
  • Must not include -- added sugars, sweeteners, colours, sodium, caffeine, quinine, or any other ingredient that contains energy.
• UnprocessedFruitAndVegetables
  • Includes: "All whole fresh fruit (except coconut) and vegetables, fungi and legumes (except peanuts) as sold with no processing, plus these same products that have only been peeled, cut and/or surface treated and/or blanched and/or frozen (not dried), or canned without the addition of fat, sugars/sweeteners or salt."
  • Excludes: canned fruit and vegetables in juice and brine
• NonDairyBeverages
• Jellies
• WaterBasedIcedConfection
• OtherFoods: Any food that doesn't fit in the above categories.

nutritionalInformation

Type: object

Required keys:

• energykJ (int): kilojoule content of the food per 100g or 100ml (note it's lowercase 'k' and uppercase 'J')
• sodiumMilligrams (int): sodium content in mg per 100g or 100ml
• saturatedFatGrams (float): saturated fat in grams per 100g or 100ml
• totalSugarsGrams (float): sugar content in grams per 100g or 100ml

Optional keys:

• percentageFruitVegetableNutLegume (int): Percentage from 0-100 of fruit, vegetable, nut or legume content. Improves the health star rating. Use with the attributes value set.
• fibreGrams (float): dietary fibre content in grams per 100g or 100ml. Improves health star rating
• proteinGrams (float): protein content in grams per 100g or 100ml. Improves health star rating
• attributes (Attributes[]): If the food contains either non-concentrated fruit/vegetable/nuts/legumes sources or concentrated fruits or vegetables. percentageFruitVegetableNutLegume must be set if using this

Attributes

Attributes of the food, such as whether the food contains non-concentrated fruit/vegetable/nuts/legumes sources or concentrated fruits or vegetables.

Possible values:

• ContainsFruitOrVegetable
• ContainsNutsOrLegumes

Acknowledgement

The calculations and health star rating information is taken from the https://healthstarrating.gov.au website