Infographics of the Week: What 7.68 Million Food Ratings Tell Us About Our Eating Habits

Over the past 5 months, Massive Health has collected over 7.68 million food ratings from people in 50 countries through The Eatery, an iPhone app that helps users track and analyze their eating patterns. Today, they are releasing some of their key findings about when people eat, where people eat, what they eat, and who they eat with, as a series of infographics. For more information about the company and  to see the infographic detailing at how people think they eat (and how healthy they actually eat) click here.

Key Finding on When We Eat

• We eat 1.7 percent less healthy after each hour that passes in the day
• Breakfast is the healthiest meal of the day. Dinner is 15.9 percent less healthy
• People who eat breakfast eat 12.3 percent healthier during the day
• On the weekend, we eat more unhealthy foods – including 1.4  times as many croissants and 1.6 times as much beer

Key Findings On Where We Eat

• Americans who live along the coast eat healthier than those who live in the Midwest and the south
• We eat 12.7 percent healthier when we eat at home (vs. eating out)

Key Finding On Who Eats What

• New Yorkers eat 3.2 times more arugula than other cities (NY’s health rating is a high 83.6 percent)
• Philadelphia residents eat 3.7 times more bagels (Philly’s health rating is a low 28.6 percent)

Key Findings On Who People Eat With

Our friends influence what we choose to eat by 34.5 perent.