Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Nutrition Almanac
John D. Kirschmann · 2007
62/100
👎 Skip It
The Nutrition Almanac has served health-conscious lay readers faithfully across six editions and several decades, and the food-composition tables remain its most reliable section. But the 2007 sixth edition is now nearly twenty years old, the layout change that upset longtime users was a real downgrade in navigability, and the therapeutic supplement claims are inconsistently evidence-based even by the standards of their time. For a current quick-reference, more up-to-date options exist.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety72
substance62
craft55
originality58
accuracy52
hype65
age-fit68
human-eye58
Penny’s verdict62
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