Strengthen your natural defences...
...with our nutrition areas for health.
The most common cause – a poor diet
According to ourworldindata.org, the biggest risk factor for dying today is high blood pressure. In the Healing effects area we show you how to lower your blood pressure with the variety and natural active compounds of nutrition. Besides high blood pressure there are many other causes of disease and mechanisms to bring the body back into a healthy balance. With the Food Secrets – Nutrition 4.0 app you can influence these specifically.
Counteract with a healthy diet
The chart below shows the most common worldwide causes of various diseases people died from in 2019. Besides high blood pressure there are many more factors (high blood sugar, excess weight, etc.) that arise from an unhealthy diet.
Are you aware that nutrition is by far the simplest way to extend and improve your life?
A healthy diet can do much more...
In the defence and body-systems areas you'll learn what else a healthy diet influences. Whether you toss in a processed ready-meal or dedicate some of your time to a natural food – it has far more effect on your body and mind than you are probably aware of.
Nutrition – the biggest lever
So why not start there and look a little deeper into nutrition? A healthy diet is not only good for your body – it also serves your mental health, your contentment, and is pure enjoyment too!
What "healthy eating" actually means day to day
Most lists of healthy foods have the same flaw. They tell you broccoli is healthy, but not what it is healthy for. A food that supports your immune system is not automatically the one that supports your blood pressure or your gut. That is why we do not sort by "healthy" — we sort by goal.
Behind every area on this page sit 1000+ foods from the Swiss nutrient database, extended with compounds such as polyphenols, fibre and omega-3. Each food is scored separately for each goal. A food can lead one ranking and sit mid-table in another, and that is not a contradiction — it is the whole point.
Start with the goal that applies to you: immune system, nutrient deficiency, longevity, body systems or healing effects.
Frequently asked questions
What foods boost the immune system most?
At the top of our immune ranking sit chilli, dried nori seaweed, chia seeds, rosehip and dried soybeans, alongside herbs and spices such as oregano, marjoram and cloves.
One caveat matters here. Those values are per 100 grams, and nobody eats 100 grams of oregano. So the app also shows what a realistic portion contributes — otherwise oregano wins every table, which helps nobody with the shopping.
More in the immune system area.
The Food Secrets app holds all 1000+ foods sorted by your goal, with the values behind every rank.
What is the healthiest food in the world?
There is no single answer, and any list that gives you one has quietly picked a goal for you. The honest answer is that it depends on what you are eating for.
What does keep appearing near the top across most of our rankings: berries such as blueberry and aronia, seeds such as flaxseed, chia and pumpkin seeds, plus broccoli, green tea and walnuts. What keeps appearing near the bottom is heavily processed food with a lot of sugar and little else.
The ranking in the Food Secrets app shows how far up each of these foods sits for your goal — and why.
What is a balanced diet?
Balanced means you cover every nutrient across the week — not that every single meal is perfect. In practice: enough fibre, enough protein, a sensible fatty-acid spread, and no large gaps in vitamins and minerals.
The gaps are the part you cannot see on your own. That is what the nutrient deficiency area is for: it shows which nutrient is running short for you, and which foods close that gap with the least effort.
Is there a healthy foods list or PDF table?
There is something better than a PDF: an interactive list. 1000+ foods, each carrying 100+ values — nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, plant compounds, season, and a score per health goal. Sortable, filterable and always current.
The data comes from the Swiss nutrient database of the BLV, from USDA FoodData Central and the USDA flavonoid databases, plus reviewed values for plant compounds — merged, harmonised and recalculated. That volume does not fit on a sheet of paper.
And the real point: a printed list can only show one order. Yours depends on the goal you are chasing, on what you cannot tolerate, and on what is in season. That cannot be printed, it has to be calculated — and then flow straight into recipes, a weekly plan and a shopping list.
How do I plan a week of healthy eating?
Pick one goal, not ten. Take three to five foods you genuinely like from that goal's ranking and build the week around them. Recipes, a weekly plan and a shopping list follow from that selection inside the app.
The most common mistake is rebuilding the whole diet at once. Two or three swapped foods that you keep for good beat a perfect plan you abandon after ten days.
Food Secrets
Reach all your goals!
With our nutrition app you have everything about nutrition in one app, always at hand.
