Jul 20, 2026 9 min The Benefit That Costs Less Than It Delivers A US food program hands families more groceries than taxpayers pay for. The difference is quietly covered by the companies that make infant formula, who compete to be the one brand the program buys. It is one of the more clever pieces of design in the safety net, and almost nobody talks about it. DataEconomicsNutrition
Jul 14, 2026 10 min The Score You Didn't Build (and Shouldn't Trust) A popular food dataset ships a 'health score' that literally adds grams of fat to milligrams of calcium. Reverse-engineering it took one line of code. Here is how to tell a number that was measured from a number someone made up, and why it matters for every score you did not build yourself. DataNutritionMetrics