Food and Drink infographics

These infographics are guides to what we eat and drink, including types of fruit, cheese and vegetables, chilli heat, food prices and food trade, with sections for drinks and for world cuisine. Each page credits the creator, writes out every item on the graphic and checks claims against reliable food and nutrition sources. Favourites include 16 types of melon, the Scoville scale of 166 peppers, a types of cheese chart, how to make coffee 38 ways and spice blends from around the world.

Sections of Food and Drink

Compound Interest infographic titled The Chemistry of Wine, showing five winemaking steps from preparation to bottling and molecular structures of anthocyanins, tannins, flavan-3-ols and flavonols around a glass of red wine

World Cuisine

Top 20 Restaurant Cuisines by Monthly UK Searches

By Aluna

Indian leads with 1,625,160 searches, followed by Italian with 1,392,070 and Chinese with 850,390.

Follygraph poster 38 ways to make a perfect coffee, 38 cut away cups and glasses on a dark background showing the layers of espresso, milk, foam, water, chocolate, cream and whiskey in drinks from ristretto, espresso and macchiato to cappuccino, flat white, latte, frappé and Irish coffee

Drinks

How to Make Coffee 38 Ways, From Ristretto to Irish Coffee

By Follygraph

Most café drinks start with a 30 ml espresso shot, then change the amount of milk, foam, water or ice to make a cappuccino, flat white, latte or americano.

Tall infographic titled Top Banana by Datamyne on US banana imports, showing top importing countries in 2015 led by the US at 4,613 thousand metric tons, bananas as 39% of US fruit imports, top ports of arrival and departure, countries of origin led by Guatemala 39%, carriers, importers led by Dole 35% and Chiquita 29%, and monthly import volumes

Food and Drink

Top Banana Meaning and Origin of the Phrase

By Datamyne

It first appears in print in 1947 and 1948.

What this collection covers

The 29 infographics here fall into a few groups. There are guides to types of food, such as melons, bananas, cheese, vegetables and spice blends, and heat charts for chilli peppers. There are trade and price charts on food exports, food imports and the cost of protein and calories, plus maps of where US crops are grown. The rest cover dishes and drinks, from hot dog styles and European Christmas desserts to coffee recipes, wine chemistry and US bar closing times.

Where to start

For chilli heat, the Scoville Scale of 166 Peppers, From Bell Pepper to Pepper X by u/Life_Ad_2142 on Reddit sorts peppers into ten heat tiers, with Apollo the hottest pepper at 3,000,000 and pure capsaicin at 15 to 16 million SHU. The shorter TasteAtlas chart, Habanero Scoville Rating and 34 More Peppers, by TasteAtlas, rates the habanero at 100,000 to 350,000 and puts Pepper X at the top with 3,180,000.

Two charts rank food exporters using WTO data. Top Food Exporters in 2022, the 20 Largest Countries by World Charts (u/oscarleo0) shows the United States leading with about $185 billion, while the Econovis map Largest Food Exporter in the World, Food Exports Map 2023 puts the United States at US$168 billion in 2023, ahead of Brazil at US$143 billion.

For food costs, Cheapest Protein Sources per Gram, 41 Foods Compared by u/James_Fortis shows dried pinto beans, split peas, lentils and chickpeas costing about $0.50 or less for 30 g of protein, against $5.76 for ribeye steak. Pop Chart Lab's Types of Cheese Chart, 65 Cheeses by Milk and Texture sorts 65 cheeses by milk and then texture, with cow's milk accounting for 43 of them.

The collection also has two sections of its own, Drinks and World Cuisine.

Only Foods also supplies the 16 types of melon chart, with photographs and usual uses. Its text version separates true melons from the five entries that belong to other groups.

Questions about food and drink infographics

What is the hottest pepper on the Scoville scale?

On the Scoville Scale of 166 Peppers by u/Life_Ad_2142, the hottest pepper is Apollo at 3,000,000 SHU, followed by Pepper X at 2,693,000 and Dragon's Breath at 2,480,000. Only pure capsaicin, which is not a pepper, rates higher at 15 to 16 million SHU.

Which country exports the most food?

The United States. The Econovis food exports map puts it first in 2023 with US$168 billion, ahead of Brazil at US$143 billion and the Netherlands at US$118 billion.

What is the cheapest source of protein?

Dried legumes. On u/James_Fortis's chart of 41 foods priced at Walmart, pinto beans, split peas, lentils and chickpeas all cost about $0.50 or less for 30 g of protein, compared with $5.76 for ribeye steak.

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