Want to know if he’s date-worthy? His grocery purchases reveal more than his dating profile on Match.com.

At the checkout aisle recently, the guy in front of me unloaded lots and lots of vegetables and fruits, nutritional energy bars, and paper towels made from recycled paper. So…a juicer, hiker, and conscientious Boy Scout when it comes to the environment.

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We’ve all met this guy before. He always brings his own “market bags” from home and doesn’t consider for a second that those bags might be bacteria carriers (what are the chances those bags get washed on a regular basis?). He drives a Prius and if it has a Greenpeace sticker on the bumper, you could say he’s hit the trifecta of political correctness.

He drives a Prius and if it has a Greenpeace sticker on the bumper, you could say he’s hit the trifecta of political correctness.

A convincing case could be made that a guy like this is good for a girl’s heart and soul. Chances are he wouldn’t mind sharing the burden of household chores and would even enthusiastically engage in conversations about “the relationship.” He is the kind of guy who appears to be comfortable in his own skin, precisely because he is so sure his eco-friendly crusade puts him on life’s highroad.

Some of these guys have so much confidence in their appeal that if you don’t bite, they look at you as if you just turned down an exclusive invitation to join them on Noah’s Ark.

Yet I wonder. How many of these energy-conscious crusaders would turn down an invitation to fly on a private jet? How many of them would voice a complaint against any of their idols routinely flying on private jets? How many of these boy-scouts have it in them to play tough when the situation calls for it?

Are these guys, who make a point of knowing all the ingredients in any food they ingest, as conscientious about all the factors and agendas that go into the lifestyle movement they champion? Then comes the key question. Is this kind of guy sexy and attractive on a fundamental level?

Is this kind of guy sexy and attractive on a fundamental level?

I was willing to entertain the possibility as I paid for my purchases at the checkout aisle — plus 10 cents for a paper bag. We ended up walking to the parking lot together. I was hoping he’d surprise me and be driving a Ford Focus or a Dodge Challenger. Anything but a Prius.

Of course, a Prius is exactly what he drove. I was parked a few spaces away. He looked over at me in my four-wheel drive Toyota 4 Runner and this time, there was no smile. What can I say? If we ever re-meet on Tinder, the dating site, neither one of us will “swipe right.”