Why don't sugar and sweeteners get a score in Mira?

Mira leaves pure sweeteners without a rating. These include, for example:

• sugar;

• honey;

• agave syrup;

• coconut sugar;

• maple syrup;

• table sweeteners and sugar substitutes.

They aren't everyday foods but highly specialised ingredients: their job is to sweeten other food, not to be eaten as a dish in their own right.

Mira's food rating is built around overall nutritional balance — how calories, sugar, salt and saturated fat weigh up against helpful components like protein and fibre. For something that is almost entirely sugar, that calculation tells you nothing useful, and the usual bands — "Excellent", "Good", "Poor" and "Bad" — wouldn't add any meaning here.

That's why sweeteners appear in the app without a score. It isn't a bug or a gap in the data — Mira simply won't rate something it has no suitable method for. You'll still see how much sugar other products contain through their rating and nutrition indicators.