1. Walmart for pricing (North Carolina region): [https://www.walmart.com/](https://www.walmart.com/) 2. USDA FoodData Central for caloric density: [https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/](https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/)
Tool: Microsoft Excel
I like both this chart and your previous one. I’m curious where Greek yogurt fits into the mix.
Would love to see this with some junk food added in for scale/reference
I like the chart but egg and fruit are too similar of colors.
Hm, so nuts are overall a “cheap” calory source? I did not expect their calory density would compensate so hard for their very high per gram cost.
We did this with Drink’s Cost vs Alcohol Content
Rice, dried beans (not the canned kind) and nuts can provide pretty darn good nutrition for an insanely cheap cost on a daily basis. A grown man can eat for literally a couple bucks a day with that.
Am I wrong or here, at least for this topic, the X axis is irrelevant?
The X axis is the density of calories per gram of food. All the information about the title of this post is contained in the y axis. Why is the X axis needed?
This is interesting but I’m not sure how useful these axis are for comparison. Shouldn’t it be Y axis is cost per gram and x axis is calories per gram so that the location on the chart indicates the cost per calorie. The axis feel unrelated and this could just be two lists, one for each axis and that would be even more useful.
Thus the expression “costs peanuts,” I guess.
I wonder if the graph would be better if x axis is calories/gram like you have but the y axis is $/gram instead of $/calorie
This seems wrong, for shrimp at least. No way it’s more calorically dense than ribeye.
Looks like it wasn’t the avocado toast after all
So most of the things that are many calories per currency are gonna go right through you. So homeless people should eat lots of pork
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Sources:
1. Walmart for pricing (North Carolina region): [https://www.walmart.com/](https://www.walmart.com/)
2. USDA FoodData Central for caloric density: [https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/](https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/)
Tool: Microsoft Excel
I like both this chart and your previous one. I’m curious where Greek yogurt fits into the mix.
Would love to see this with some junk food added in for scale/reference
I like the chart but egg and fruit are too similar of colors.
Hm, so nuts are overall a “cheap” calory source? I did not expect their calory density would compensate so hard for their very high per gram cost.
We did this with Drink’s Cost vs Alcohol Content
Rice, dried beans (not the canned kind) and nuts can provide pretty darn good nutrition for an insanely cheap cost on a daily basis. A grown man can eat for literally a couple bucks a day with that.
Am I wrong or here, at least for this topic, the X axis is irrelevant?
The X axis is the density of calories per gram of food. All the information about the title of this post is contained in the y axis. Why is the X axis needed?
This is interesting but I’m not sure how useful these axis are for comparison. Shouldn’t it be Y axis is cost per gram and x axis is calories per gram so that the location on the chart indicates the cost per calorie. The axis feel unrelated and this could just be two lists, one for each axis and that would be even more useful.
Thus the expression “costs peanuts,” I guess.
I wonder if the graph would be better if x axis is calories/gram like you have but the y axis is $/gram instead of $/calorie
This seems wrong, for shrimp at least. No way it’s more calorically dense than ribeye.
Looks like it wasn’t the avocado toast after all
So most of the things that are many calories per currency are gonna go right through you. So homeless people should eat lots of pork