Our service supports tracking many popular diet types. Most of these diets consider that Cholesterol has a negative impact while calculating the Food Grade, but very insignificant. Please take a look at the related support article and blog post. (The negative effect will rise while choosing a more significant portion size.)
The grade with a letter represents the numerical score:
For instance, a 0.7 Food Score is the same as B+. The positive or negative number of the Food Score is calculated by formulas using the following coefficients:
While increasing the portion size from "1 egg" to "4 eggs," the bad and good nutrient values change (increase or decrease), thus, change of the grade.
The research outcomes refer to the fact that Cholesterol does not harm, and it does not have to have a negative impact (-0.000398 coefficient;) recently, Cholesterol in eggs has been proven as a nutrient not to affect the body's Cholesterol in a "bad" way. And we agree that the "eggs" food has to be graded better.
We devised a solution to calculate unique Food Grades for Low-Carb and Keto diets. If you switch to one of these two diets, the grades of the eggs (and oils) items have to be calculated higher than the grades of the scoring system currently in use for other diet types. This alternative grading system will show you an "A" grade if you enter three large eggs of the "Egg Whole Raw" item:
We can discuss updating the current rating formulas for the other diets (e.g., for the regular Calorie Counting diet.) So far, our development team is not yet aware of the new grading system that includes the mentioned Cholesterol factor. We continue consulting with dietitians to find out which of the modern scoring systems better fits and already consists of a better cholesterol coefficient. Until then, the app will continue showing up "B-," "D+," "D," or "D-" for foods containing cholesterol (the score/rating may vary based on whether you chose High-Protein, Low-Fat, Vegetarian, Vergan or the regular Calorie Counting diet type.) If you do not like the way how Food Grade is calculated, it's possible to hide Food Grade from tracking. Alternatively, you can switch to the Mediterranean diet type — the app will automatically hide the Food Grade.