In the great race to the bottom, visualizations and info-graphics are a handy tool for replacing words, what with all that laborious reading some old codgers think we ought to do since we have a facility for language. It’s annoying enough to have to read the names of the foods we buy, why should we have to read the nutrition label too?
Enter Foodsel, a website dedicated to furthering your simplistic and incomplete understanding of the foods you eat. You can choose any food from Foodsel’s database and it will show you a pretty picture of batteries, sugar cubes and sticks of butter. Why, I don’t know, particularly the batteries.
Humans do not run on batteries, so showing me that some soup contains 20 batteries worth of calories is pretty meaningless. Of course, I am helpfully told that I need to consume 107.3 batteries a day. Huh?
Really, I have no idea what the people behind this site were thinking, but it wasn’t much.
Tags: food, Unnecessary Things
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