Innovation
Public tools that put the science to work.
Alongside its trials and policy work, FIMI builds public tools that let clinicians, health systems, and food companies act on the evidence directly.
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Food Compass
A comprehensive nutrient-profiling system that scores any food or beverage from 1 to 100 across 54 attributes spanning 9 health-relevant domains. Publicly available and free to use, Food Compass helps guide healthy food choices, industry reformulation, ESG metrics, and policy action.
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Food is Medicine Toolkit
A guide for clinicians, health system leaders, and communities to design, implement, and sustain Food is Medicine programs. Related project work spans clinical education, culturally and linguistically relevant patient materials, and a business-value framework for health plans and health systems.
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Nutrition Security Screener
A 2-question clinical screening tool with a brief preamble for identifying nutrition insecurity in patients and food is medicine program participants. It closes a real gap: the USDA’s eighteen-question household food security survey asks almost nothing about the nutritional quality of the food a household can access.