Food addiction can be defined simply as a lack of control of food intake. Research shows that up to one in five people may have food addiction or exhibit addictive-like eating behavior. Nonetheless, food addiction remains to be medically undiagnosable, as it has not yet been formally recognized by the American Psychiatric Association as a psychological disorder. The development of valid and reliable tools to measure food addiction is necessary in order for food addiction to be formally recognized and clinically diagnosable. To date, the best tool to measure food addiction is the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), which assesses addictive-like behavior in individuals based on self-report. Preliminary evidence regarding food attributes implicated in addictive-like eating suggest that highly processed foods are more likely to lead to addictive-like eating behavior than whole or minimally processed foods. The goal of this study is to develop a novel tool that will objectively assess the addictiveness of various foods based on inherent properties of the food itself. The scale ranges from 0 - 100 (from least to most addictive foods). Given that the current food landscape in the Western world is increasingly becoming dominated by ultra-processed foods, understanding how these foods impact one’s likelihood to lose control and overeat is important. Addictive-like eating behavior is associated with elevated body mass index, binge eating, and weight cycling, all of which have deleterious short- and long-term health consequences; thus, such a tool is critical to understanding how individual foods can influence eating behavior.