[Mathnerd314]

Looking at the Tuft website https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass/research/data/ it's clear they were focusing on within-category ratings. Celery juice > apple juice and quinoa > tortillas is not going to surprise anyone. And for seafood, salmon has been promoted many times as a miracle diet food. I can't spot any obvious problems in these within-category charts.

If you take a within-category metric and try to selectively apply it across food groups then of course you will get weird results. Is a broad-band metric more useful? I'm not sure. There are meal replacement products (shakes, bars, etc.) but besides those I think you need to break down your diet into at least a few food groups - protein, vegetables, etc. Just taking a random selection of items will probably be deficient in some important nutrients.

[fat_cantor]

It's also clear that the criticisms from the article apply. For example, in Seafood, Dairy, Eggs, Meat they have ranked soy milk ahead of milk.