SWAP Boxes

The SWAP Box contains everything needed to implement our stoplight nutrition ranking system, which is designed to help promote healthy food choices at food banks and pantries.

SWAP is a stoplight nutrition ranking system designed to help promote healthy food choices at food banks and food pantries. It ranks foods based on levels of saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars because these nutrients are linked with an increased risk of chronic diseases. SWAP aligns with the Healthy Eating Research Nutrition Guidelines for the Charitable Food System and ranks food into three categories: green (choose often), Yellow (choose sometimes), and Red (choose rarely).