Eat liver and bacon instead of fruit! :)
 

So what happens if you take all the *essential* nutrients and create an index that scores food? What comes out at the top? Why liver and BACON of course! :)

Fruit were shockingly far down, and grains and legumes are indeed relatively empty calories. Not to mention grains' *anti-nutrients*. Note that for the scoring he used only known *essential* nutrients. If you want anti-oxidants fruit are up there. But overall vegetables are *way* higher than fruit, and no fructose to boot.

Another take-away is the incredible anti-animal-source bias of the Whole Foods "ANDI", and the "Nuval" food nutrition scores, such as by leaving out Vitamin B12, increasing the weight of flavonoids and other non-essential nutrients, and lowering the score based on cholesterol and saturated fat content (folks it's not the 80s anymore).

Before you criticize his work, he does mention the caveats:
- this is not meant to be a be-all end-all dietary advice. Do with the info as you wish
- certain known essential nutrients weren't represented
- he used a single large database source (for consistency)
- some nutrient entries for some items were zero even though they are known to be non-zero
- there are some nutrients that are today known to be non-essential but which have important health benefits, such as immune-regulatory anti-bacterial, and anti-oxidant effects which were not used in the scoring
- he didn't include bio-availability as a factor, because the data isn't consistently available from a single source. This would make grains and some other plant sources look worse

Nothing will ever replace my hourly garden-hose enema therapy.