Snacks

Yenzo has checked 25 products in this group, from Kinh Đô, Lay's, O'Star and 16 other brands; on a Vietnamese pack the group is called “snack”. The ingredient list and the nutrition table of each product come from its own label — all 25 from the open database Open Food Facts — and every product is rated with the same open formula the Yenzo app uses. Product names are given as printed on the pack, in Vietnamese, with a short English description in brackets.

On the Yenzo scale, 2 are rated “Sometimes” and 23 “Moderate”. Across these 25 products, the thing that most often pulls the rating down is energy density (23 of 25 products), followed by salt (20) and saturated fat (17). The ratings compare snacks with each other by the same rules — which rank higher within the group — not whether to eat them. Each product's page lists the reasons behind its level, figure by figure, with the threshold each figure is measured against.