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Taking photos of food before you tuck in has become commonplace nowadays. Social media means you can share every aspect of your life with the world, and what many people want to share is their meals.
Whether you’re in a restaurant, cafe or in your own dining room, you’ll probably see someone taking a picture of the plate in front of them before typing up their verdict on Twitter or Instagram. People also use social media sites to share their opinions about certain meals or eateries, which means there are lots of food posts out there for you to peruse.
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Researchers from the University of Utah in the US recently looked at almost 80 million posts from America on Twitter, extracting around four million tweets that spoke specifically about food. Not only did this show what a big conversation food is on the web, it also gave some insight into the most popular types of food.
As many would probably suspect, the ten most talked about foods on Twitter aren’t all that healthy. In fact, the only food that was sort of healthy and that made it into the top ten was chicken, but as we all know, it doesn’t take much to make this ingredient unhealthy.
In fact, only 16 per cent of the total posts about food talked about healthy meals or drink. While just nine per cent of tweets were about fast food, the vast majority were still about unhealthy meals, which could give some insight into people’s diets.
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The top ten most popular foods and drinks suggests that we all love to talk about our guilty pleasures and comfort food.
- Coffee
- Beer
- Pizza
- Starbucks
- IPA beer
- Wine
- Chicken
- BBQ
- Ice cream
- Tacos
But it’s not just food that people are posting about, as the researchers also found a fair few mentions of exercise, suggesting people are working off at least some of the ice cream, pizza and beer that they’re tweeting about. The most popular healthy activities were walking, dancing, running, workouts, golf, swimming, hiking, yoga and bowling.
According to Quynh Nguyen, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the University of Utah College of Health, refining the methods they used to look at all the information could mean access to previously untapped insights into people’s health. Not only could this be interesting, it could also mean more targeted health campaigns to get people eating right and moving more.
H/T Time and Medical Daily