Thursday
Jun192008
Grocery Aisle Nutritional Values
Randy
Three different ways to view the grocery store from Wired Magazine Infoporn January 2008 (16.01) by Dan Marsiglio. Cost per Calorie, Calories by Weight and Sugar by Weight.
If you're trying to cut back on the sugar in your diet, stay away from the cereal aisle!
Reader Comments (2)
I actually had a pretty tough time understanding this one. In the end it's really just a bar graph, but the third dimension really made it confusing.
This one is a little misleading because of the water/moisture content of the foods. It is true that 8 ounces (by weight) of coke has the same number of calories as a single ounce of cheerios, but that's because of all the water in the coke! [and fruit, and yogurts, even meats...]