Whether it's salty, sweet, sour, barbecue, spicy, minty or chocolatey, we all love to have our taste buds exploited by an assortment of flavors. This visualization breaks down the data collected and categorizes them to mirror the different sections of the food pyramid, though they are not exactly the same. To better accommodate the types of flavors that were collected we have broken the categories into: Dairy, Meat, Vegetable, Fruit, Grain, and Sweet, Oil, and Fat. The basis of the distribution of flavors relies on its main ingredients; for example, pesto is a vegetable because its main ingredients are crushed garlic, basil, and pine nuts. Another example of this strategy would be root beer being categorized as a Sweet, Oil, Fat because its main component is sugar.
To allow for a cleaner visualization, joke answers and those that were not able to fit in a category, such as pizza, were omitted.
The decision to use the food pyramid as a foundation comes about because when one thinks of food, and the visualization of food, the food pyramid comes to mind. It is an already established image, and to organize flavors, which are a component of food, it only made sense to use it. According the graphic and the organization of the data, we found that Sweets/Oils/Fats was the most popular category, since most college kids enjoy junk food.
The least popular is Grains, with those few who listed things such as hops, carrot cake, and cookie dough.
Lara von Linsowe-Wilson, Samantha Lopez, Ben Hamlin. Capstone Fall 2015.