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by aix1 19 days ago
Also, "healthy" as a boolean flag is, franky, a bit of a joke.
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I see why you're confused. Some of these tags carry nutritional information, so it's easy to assume they all do.

The healthy tag is about marketing. It's a product positioning statement.

I'm guessing that if it is a real tag, then consumers have a "know it when I see it" feeling for certain kinds of food that they'd describe as "healthy." As a word that could be consistently well-defined, it's garbage. But that doesn't mean it's not useful for real-world consumers to find what they believe they want.
If I search "healthy" in DoorDash, Taco Bell comes up in the top results