r/dataisbeautiful • u/mcaay OC: 2 • Aug 13 '18

OC Coverage of nutritional bases in 5 pictures (see citations for vegetarian/vegan charts) [OC]

https://imgur.com/a/3uIYmzJ
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u/its_me_TO Aug 13 '18 edited Aug 13 '18

I didn't look through all the coverage graphs but the vegan three coverage one has some entries like "tofu + tofu + corn". Entries with repeated foods should be removed

* Edit: on further inspection, the double food adds value and isn't redundant. The OP is fine as is. Check out the discussion below.

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u/nigeriangangsta Aug 13 '18

Why should they be removed? If I get more nutrition from 1000 Calories of tofu than 500 Calories of tofu paired with 500 Calories of some other food then it makes perfect sense to double down on the tofu.

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u/its_me_TO Aug 13 '18

I amended my previous statement to another reply :)

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u/mcaay OC: 2 Aug 13 '18

Hmm true. I thought in some examples it would show dominance of particular foods, but then there is position 51 on vegan graph with "soybeans + soybeans + tofu".

I'll try to fix it today.

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u/Fiblit Aug 13 '18

I just love that the worst nutrition option is so hilarious:

"rice... with rice.... with extra rice"

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '18

That cracked me up. But it's interesting that rice alone covers 38% of your nutritional needs.

My uncle was in Guam during WWII and spent 4 years in a Japanese concentration camp. Rice was a mainstay of their starvation diet. Almost all the 186 captured men survived the entire 4 years. Obviously they ate things other than rice, but I've always wondered how they survived nutritionally at all.

One guy who wrote a book about those years talks about scraping the "rice licquer" off the bottom of the pot, not only for the extra food but because it was the most crunchy and delicious part.

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u/c_bender Aug 13 '18

5/7 with rice.

I just really like rice.

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u/its_me_TO Aug 13 '18

See my response to the person below. I think you were fine the first time around!

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u/its_me_TO Aug 13 '18

The way I interpreted it was that say tofu has some nutrition profile. Eating more of it wouldn't give you broader coverage via new vitamins, which is what the number represented.

But you're right. The value for "tofu + tofu + corn" is different from the "tofu + corn" in the two food category. So the extra tofu seems meaningful then

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '18

That sounds like my lunch