• Choosing the Healthiest Foods for Your Family

    Welcome! I am a mom of a busy 8 year old and an adventurous 6 year old. I also happen to work for a great company called NuVal. NuVal is a nutritional scoring system that rates foods on a scale of 1-100, based on how nutritious they are. We are implementing NuVal in grocery stores around the country.

    NuVal may not be in your area yet. But I see the scores while they are "hot off the press" and because of that I am able to make better decisions about what to feed my family.

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    I am not a registered dietitian. I am just a mom who happens to work for NuVal. I am also an AFAA-certified Group Exercise Instructor. NuVal is a system designed to lead customers to the most nutritious food choices. It is not a diet or weight-loss plan. Before starting a diet, you should always consult your personal physician. The opinions expressed in this blog are the opinions of the writer and not the opinions of NuVal LLC.

Tyler Trades Up: Trop 50

Friday, December 18, 2009 at 07:32 AM

Tyler

Meet Tyler, one of my talented colleagues at NuVal.  Tyler, now a Business Analyst for NuVal, played rugby for Boston College.  While he no longer has time for rugby, he still works out daily, before work, following the Navy Seal Cross-Fit Regimen.  Tyler is a healthy, well-balanced eater, packing in lots of fruits and veggies.  In fact, at NuVal, we call him the Salad Shaker.  You know it’s time for lunch when you hear Tyler shaking his big salad in his oversized plastic container.

Recently, I bumped into Tyler in the NuVal kitchen, where we were both hunting for a mid-morning snack.  Tyler was so excited.  “Guess what, Melissa!” he said.  “Check out the orange juice I bought.  I read about Trop 50 on your blog and now I’m buying it all the time.  It’s so awesome!  I can’t believe it gets a NuVal score of 81!”  He was so gleeful.  And then, I burst his bubble.  I do that to people.  Just ask Josie over at YumYucky.  You see, Tyler had made a very common mistake.  He had grabbed the wrong Trop 50.  Horrors!  The Amazing Trop 50 of A Better Bag of Groceries Fame with a score of 81 has added Calcium and Vitamin D.  The one that Tyler purchased only gets a score of 49. 

That is why we need NuVal on our supermarket shelves.

Even when you are familiar with the scores.  Even when you work with them every day.  Even when you read about them on my blog or on TradingUpDowntown.  Because most of us are in a hurry, it is so, so easy to grab the wrong juice. 

So many people have written to me asking when NuVal will be in their grocery stores.  We are currently in Price Chopper, Meijer and Hy-Vee grocery stores.  Soon, we will be in United Texas stores.  We are working hard to get more retailers to partner with us.  You can help by going to the NuVal website and completing a store suggestion form.

In the meantime, if you are a Trop 50 fan, be sure to grab the one with the blue top when you are at the grocery store!

Question of the Day: 

In which grocery stores would you like to see NuVal scores?

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