The Healthy Eating Food Index 2019

The Healthy Eating Food Index 2019 is an open dataset from Health Canada with 16 files (CSV, PDF, SAS, TXT); catalogue record updated 2026-01-16. On CanQuery you can preview 11 live tables, open its CSV or Excel file as a table, filter, chart and export up to 10,000 rows as CSV and follow the original downloads. Files are available in English and French.

Health Canada has developed a series of research tools. These tools assess the extent a group of individuals are following Canada’s food guide: Healthy Eating Food Index Canadian Food Intake Screener Canadian Eating Practices Screener This page provides detailed information on the Healthy Eating Food Index (HEFI). The pdf document entitled "Calculating HEFI scores" describes how to calculate HEFI-2019 scores. The accompanying data files provide the user with the SAS macro and the information to apply the SAS macro. For more information on the screeners, please see: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/info/4f1c44a6-1ecf-4da7-a1da-058b1ff9ce06

Publisher

Health Canada

Resources

16

Catalogue metadata updated

2026-01-16