These unanswered questions distract from a potentially interesting science and health story, an opportunity to raise the level of dialog about nutrition.

FORBES: Which food has more fairy dust, and which journalist will report it?

To test our hunch that the same applied in nutrition, we looked at the aggregate Eatery scores for all meals eaten in a city versus the published obesity level in that city.

FORBES: We Eat Less Healthy Than We Think [Infographic]