What is Guiding Stars?
Since 2006, Guiding Stars has been making nutrition as easy as 1, 2, 3. We analyze foods using a patented algorithm and translate the nutrition information to a rating system that is easy to understand.
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Thanksgiving Level-Up
Thanksgiving recipes are beloved. For good reason—they're generally packed with salt, sugar, and fat. We wouldn't ask anyone to skip a family favorite, but if you've got some sides people are more adventuresome with, why not experiment with improving the nutrition profile on one or two? Don't worry about flavor, either. These recipes all use a little something special to take the nutritious makeover of the family favorites into recipes delicious enough to give the old school faves a run for their money.
Latest Recipes
Great nutrition starts in your kitchen. Browse through our extensive recipe database for star-worthy recipes that will inspire you and make feeding your family nutritious food a little easier.
Sugar Shake Up
Listen to dietitians Allison Stowell and Kit Broihier discuss the state of sugar in the recording of this free, one-hour webinar. This webinar is good for one CPE credit for Registered Dietitians and Dietetic Technicians, Registered.
Food Finder
Search for any of 50,000 foods in the Guiding Stars database and view the zero, one, two or three star nutrition rating for that food.
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Should You Feed a Cold and Starve a Fever?
As I’ve been suffering from a bad cold for almost a week now, and spending waaaay too much time bundled up in bed, I figured now was as good a time as any to examine the old adage “feed a cold, starve a fever” and see if there was any truth to it. First off, I want to say that dietitians never recommend “starving” for any reason, so you can rest-assured I won’t be giving anyone that advice. But what’s this bit of medical folklore all about?
Foods from FNCE 2018
We just went to the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo. As always, it's a great time to discover new food products that are coming to stores. We have a number of fun and exciting food trends to report on later this month, so keep and eye out for our post and webinar on food trends for the year ahead! For now, we've got a couple of quick reviews for two of the products we tried, Snow Monkey Frozen Superfood Blend (Acai), which earns 2 Guiding Stars and Mooala Bananamilk. The banana milk does not currently earn stars, but they're working on adding more calcium to the product, so check back in on the rating in January or February.
Spooky Good
Nutrition and Halloween may seem like old enemies, but with a little imagination, your kids and their friends will think they've always gone hand in hand. There's not a better time of year to encourage kids to play with their food.