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Facts about tea presented in a truly attractive infographic.
Tea Production
China produces 1275384 tons of tea per year. India produces 805180 tons annually. Kenya? 345800 tons. Sri Lanka produces 318470 tons per year, and Turkey and Vietnam produce 198046 and 174900, respectively.
Tibetan Tea
In Tibet, they mix salt and butter into their tea.
UK Tea
165 million cups of tea are consumed each day in the UK. On a given day, 40% of the UK’s fluid intake will be tea.
Ideal Brewing Temperatures
Did you know different types of tea have different idea brewing temperatures? White tea brews best between 65 and 70 degrees Celsius. Grean Tea? Between 75 and 80 degrees Celsius. Oolong brews best between 80 and 85 degress Celsius, and Black tea needs a good 99 degrees Celsius to brew the best.
Pickled?
Lahpet, which is pickled tea, is eaten in Myanmar.
Tea Consumption
Turkey is #1 at 2.1 kg per year. Ireland is next at 2.0 kg. The UK ties Irelend with 2.0 kg. Iran weighs in at 1.4 kg per year, and Morocco consumes a respectable 1.2 kg per year.
Caffeine Content
Black tea has the most at 64 to 112 mg. Oolong contains 29 to 53 mg. Green tea contains 24 to 39 mg, and white tea contains 32 to 37 mg.
Scorecard
Design: A+
I think it is beautiful.
Information: A
Good information about tea and tea consumption.
Source: Tea Facts Infographic by from MV Mediagroup.
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Best Wine to Order When Flying the Friendly Skies
Wine! Want to drink wine on a plane? This infographic will tell you which ones are best.
Red Wines
British Airways has a nice Malbec, while Emirate has a lovely Syrah. Air France has a good Syrah as well. KLM has a good Cabernet Sauvignon, and Virgin has a good Cabernet Sauvignon as well.
White Wines
EasyJet has a Cotes de Gascogne, while SAS has a nice Sauvignon. Virgin and KLM have good Sauvignon Blancs, and Ryanair has a decent Veneto Garganega Trebbiano.
Who Drinks on Planes?
89% of 400 people polled drink on airplanes. 23% drink wine, 9% drink beer, 14% drink liquor, 24% drink soft drinks, and 19% drink water.
Top 20 Biggest Drinkers
Portugal is #1, Spain is #20. See the infographic for all the ones in between. the US isn’t on the list.
More Wine Facts
China is the 7th top wine producing nation. Argentina produces 50% more wine than Australia. Italy produces the most Prosecco. Vinexpo projects that the US will be the #1 wine consuming nation by 2014. It would take 1.1 million bottles of wine to fill an Airbus A380 fuel tank.
Italy produces enough wine annually to fill 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools, or 20 billion cups of coffee.
Scorecard
Design: B
Kinda fuzzy, bu t the colors are very attractive.
Information: A
Who knew?
Source: Flying Wines Infographic via Cheap Flight Specialists
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Seeing as this is an infographic that lists 17 pieces of information, we’ll just list the facts, and move on to the review:
1. While 1.6 billion cans of “the leading cola” are consumed every day in the world, 1.7 billion cups of coffee are consumed. Coffee wins!
2. The United States is responsible for 35% of the global coffee consumption. That means 300 million people drink about 400 million cups of coffee each day in the U.S.
3. The first coffee advertisement in a U.S. newspaper appeared in 1790.
4. The espresso machine was invented in 1901 in Italy. A man named Luigi Bezzera invented it based on a French design from 1822. He wanted to create a machine that made coffee faster so his employees wouldn’t take as much time on their coffee breaks.
5. In 1732, J.S. Bach composed a cantata about coffee addiction.
6. In Leipzig, where Bach lived, coffee houses were very popular.
7. Today, Italy has over 200,000 espresso bars.
8. Breakfast time is the heaviest coffee drinking time – 65% of coffee drinks are consumed at breakfast time.
9. The average espresso drive-thru dispenses between 200 and 300 cups of coffee per day.
10. $12.2 billion dollars in sales were brought in by The Specialty Coffee Association of America. 11. 75% of those sales came from cafes and coffee shops.
12. Coffee is second to oil in the world’s highest traded commodities.
13. Back in Bach’s day in the 1700′s, coffee addiction was considered a social problem.
14. Men are from Mars, etc. Men say coffee helps them get their work done. 15. Women say coffee helps them relax.
16. In 2011, the average price of an espresso-based drink is $2.45.
17. It would take 81.63 days to break even if you bought an espresso machine for $200 and had a single cup of coffee every day.
Design: B
Not stunning, but attractive enough
Information: A
Good information about coffee
Source: automatic espresso machine at Espresso Machine Advisor
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OK. This may be my favorite infographic in at least the last 6 months. I may have picked bolder colors, but the information is amazing and presented in such a clever way. It talks about the practical consequences for competitive eating. What’s more fun than that? A barrel of monkeys eating a barrel of pickles, maybe. But I digress.
Joey Chestnut
In 10 minutes, Joey Chestnut ate 68 hot dogs. That was the equivalent of 20,196 calories, which is 7 days worth of calories if you’re talking about the human body. It’s also energy equivalent to lighting a lightbulb for 60 days straight. It would take him 26,00 pushups to work those hot dogs off. Joey’s segment of the infographic is capped off by a quote that tells us that in order to be a successful speed eater, you have to expand your stomach to “form an enormous flaccid sac capable of accommodating huge amounts of food.” Yeah, we all want to do that.
Oleg Zhornitskiy
This guy ate 9 jars of mayo in 8 minutes. That’s 2,791 grams of fat, which is more than 42 times the recommended daily allowance of fat (65 grams). Plus, even though they don’t say it, mayo has a lot of saturated fat. Energy-wise, Dude took in enough energy to power a Prius for 45 minutes. Fun factoid – surprisingly, people who speed eat professionally “eventually may develop morbid obesity, profound gastroparesis, intractable nausea, and vomiting…” No kidding. They don’t tell us how many pushups it would take to burn off all that mayo.
Sonya Thomas
Sonya likes boiled eggs. So much that she was able to eat 65 of them in just under 7 minutes. If you take the average human consumption of age and multiply it by 15 weeks, that’s how many eggs she consumed. They don’t tell us how many pushups she’d have to do, nor do they tell us what kind of machinery could be powered by that type of energy.
They end the infographic with a warning that you shouldn’t just jump into competitive eating. You should train for it.
Design: C
It’s hard to read white print on a light pink background. I did really enjoy the illustrations and the style of the illustrations. But that white lettering on the pink background – really kills the eyes.
Information: B-
It would be an “A” if they’d told me how many pushups Oleg and Sonya would have to do, and what sort of appliance or mechanical device the energy consumed by Sonya in the form of hard boiled eggs would have powered (pencil sharpener? passenger train?) And I need that kind of information. I’m emotionally invested.
Source: Competitive Eating by Restaurant Supplies
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I like a juicy hamburger as much as the next meat-loving person, but my age and health have prevented me from enjoying this American delicacy as much as I used to. Switching to grilled chicken sandwiches and the occasional fried chicken sandwich has been an easy switch for the most part, but sometime when walking in my neighborhood I will smell the aroma of burgers on the grill and get the desire to leap my neighbors fence and snatch a flame-grilled hamburger from the grill and devour it post haste, but I digress…
This infographic will make you feel hungry, guilty, ashamed, disgusted and then hungry again. Quite the run of feelings for a simple infographic about something as mundane as the hamburger.
Eight percent of Americans eat at McDonald’s on an average day and 96% of Americans eat a meal there at least yearly. It is no wonder McDonald’s is the leader hamburger retailer in the United States with 42% of the fast-food market.
The Anatomy of a Big Mac Burger
I was quite surprised to see the meat has no preservatives listed while the bread looks to be a chemist’s dream. The Big Mac bun has high fructose corn syrup, sugar, azodicarbonamide, ethoxylated monoglycerides, sodium stearoyl lactylate and some other words I can’t pronounce. The ammonium choloride must be what makes it taste so good? Other ingredients on the Big Mac include pickle slices, onions, lettuce, American cheese and the Big Mac Sauce which has many ingredients I also don’t recognize, but it sure it delicious.
Our Favorite Fast-food Hamburgers
There is certainly no shortage of choices if you are looking for a drive-through fast-food restaurant and our favorites shouldn’t surprise anyone, although some are certainly lesser known due to limited franchises in certain locales. Even though McDonald’s is the busiest, it’s burger was rated number 5. Burger King hamburgers came in at number 4 and Wendy’s square-shaped burgers were rated third best hamburgers. Number 2 was the In-N-Out Burger from the West coast franchise and the number 1 favorite hamburger was served up by Five Guys Burger and Fries!
Sadly, some of the burgers have calorie counts as high as 900 (Burger King Double Whopper), but In-N-Out Hamburger has a burger ringing in at only 270 calories. MdcDonald’s burger looks positively healthy compared to Carl’s Jr. Original Six Dollar Burger. The Big Mac has 540 calories while Carl’s Jr. burger tops out at 890 calories.
What A Burger!
The infographic also lists the world’s most expensive burger, The FleurBurger in Las Vegas, at $5,000. Kate Middleton’s favorite burger has 805 calories, but I’m not sure why we should care? The world’s weirdest burger, and my niece has prepared this, is a burger with a blazed doughnut bun, served with a fried egg and bacon. Heart attack city here I come.
A Fast-Food Infographic
The infographic is much like the fast-food it is informing us about. The information is met to be taken in quickly without much sustaining information contained. It is a fast read and the stats it provides are fun and give you some flavorful tidbits about hamburgers, their ingredients and information about the restaurants that serve them. The graphics are a lighter fare with nothing particularly standing out but nothing is working against the overall design. The infographic imagery is a mix of photography and simple line art which goes together okay. The colors feel right and don’t distract from the information, which is provided in easy to read typefaces. The deign and information serve each other well. Neither is great, but they also don’t hurt the piece.
Design: C+
The design was prepared fast and served hot, but the presentation left a bit to be desired.
Information: B-
Lots of nutritional facts to gawk at and some tasty details about the hamburger make this an interesting feast.
Hamburger Infographic provided by Weight Loss for All.
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It is a tough job to be a casino dealer, you explain and enforce the rules and wagering guidelines, ask players to place their bets and make sure that you give payoffs to the winners correctly.
There are a lot of variables for earning in the casino industry like shifting schedules and holidays. Casinos may not be getting as much numbers of patrons as they get before with developments like online gaming.
Online casino games being offered are just similar when you visit a real casino, you can play poker, blackjack and slot machines. You can also try the online version of roulette at http://www.casinotop10.net/roulette.shtml.
Many of us did not know that casino dealers are only earning about $25,000 per year. And a great portion of their earnings are from tips. Casino dealers are only expecting tips when you win and I think that it wouldn’t really hurt to share a small amount of the total amount that you wager with them.
Players who may want to avoid tipping can go to Australia or try a new game online by visiting http://www.casinotop10.net/video-poker.shtml for video poker.
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So, Food Service Warehouse, a national provider of restaurant equipment, has created a very interesting, and some would say disgusting, infographic on the topic of eating bugs. Now, I like to watch people who are pretending to survive on an island for $1,000,000 as a cash prize eating bugs as much as the next person, but when it comes to my protein intake I would rather it moo, cluck or oink, but I digress…
Sometimes I am not that gung-ho to read submitted infographics based on my own interests, but this infographic sucked me in with the foreign idea of eating insects as a diet change for the world’s population. Certainly a radical and stomach churning idea, but maybe we just have to get used to this culinary switch? A lot would have to factor into your thoughts about global warming. Do you believe it is happening? Do you think we can change it, if you do? Then do you believe eating bugs and creepy crawlies will affect it vs chowing down on steaks and pork chops?
The insect eating infographic goes into detail to set-up its case. How much nitrous oxide do our main food sources put in the atmosphere? It looks like 18% of the GHG (Greenhouse Gasses) come from our delicious livestock. And there are a crap load of hogs in Iowa, 6 hogs for every 1 person, in fact. So we have a lot of food walking around adding to the GHGs. The infographic proves its point about greenhouse gases and then offers the solution, which is to farm insects which produce far less GHG. Beef cattle produce 2,850 CO2 vs the less-yummy cricket which produces 1.57 C02. I wonder though if 2,000 or so crickets would be as filling as one cow? I guess that is an infographic for another day.
I am fascinated with this topic and think it is certainly “food” for thought. The data and information provided is very engaging, topical and well researched. I wanted more details and statistics to really convince me.
The design keeps with a “green” theme, using earth tones and a soft color palette. Green and brown with a tan background are all good and honest choices. The playful title graphic works well and using the millipede and the ants as part of the titling is a welcome addition to the fun feel of this infographic. Fonts are easy to read and I would guess Futura is the typeface chosen, which is clean and has a earthy feel with its rounded appearance. The animals appear to be clip art, which is okay because they look to be from a similar illustration style. My only fault is with the “stink lines” above each pile of creatures in the “farm insects not cattle” section.
While I may not be able to swallow the idea of eating a locust over a lamb chop, this eating insects infographic was very filling.
Design: B+
Very good effort and excellent layout. Easy to follow and simple design.
Information: A
I loved the idea and the research was an interesting read, even if I don’t like the solution to the problem of greenhouse house gasses.
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Many years ago I began to acquire a taste wine for that didn’t come from a box (best boxed wines) and even attended a wine tasting festival to better acquaint myself with the subtle nuances that my lovely wife said I was missing. Of course, drinking wine ain’t cheap, unless you are drinking cheap wine, and so this isn’t a activity to take up lightly. But if you are going to start down the path of the wine connoisseur then be ready to have blue teeth when drinking red wine so you might want to start with the whites, but I digress…
This infographic was created by Randy Krum for Vintank and illustrates the large number of wine related iphone apps that are available for the iphone owners that just can’t get enough information about wine. How many wine apps are available? At this time, and probably growing, 452 apps relating to wine are available in the iTunes store. That’s great news, right? Not so fast, over half of them have 2 stars or less (this includes no rating) for a rating. And sadly, only 28 have a 5-star rating so it would appear that this type of iphone app has more quantity than quality, so wine drinking iphone users should be as picky about their wine app as they are about their wine.
Of course if you have enough money to drink wine, then you can probably afford to buy more than one iphone wine app – you can buy all 452 apps for just $875.25. That’s much cheaper than many of the expensive wines listed here. If you are looking to save your money for actually buying wine then I have good news as many of the apps, in fact most of the apps are for free and many more are just $.99.
So the information is light, like a nice white wine, but still has good flavor. The design contrasts as it has a darker, heavy feel, kinda like a Merlot wine. Classic and elegant thin fonts on a black background with bright colors for most of the graphics leave a pleasing aftertaste for the visual palette. Some of the text is a difficult to read such as the purple and blue text, but this infographic doesn’t pretend to be more than it is, a playful bit of information housed in a simple, quick-glance design.
After drinking in this infographic, I think I’ll have one more glass, after all, I’m not driving.
Design: B-
I wanted to see more creative use of wine paraphernalia such as cork screws and wine glasses and the darker colors were hard to read, but cohesive feel throughout.
Information: B-
The information that was included was interesting and covered the topic well, but only because it was a very niche topic.
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What if everything you ever wanted to know about different types of pasta was encapsulated by a single infographic? Enter Charming Italy, the makers of an aesthetically wondrous infographic that fits the aforementioned bill quite perfectly. This graphic is pleasing to the eyes and the belly. It makes me rather hungry. Of course, I’m a giant pasta fan, so I might be a bit biased toward graphics that display items of a scrumptious nature.
In order to decode this graphic, you must start at the big black boxes in the middle of the graphic and then follow the lines from there. Let’s face it; you can probably identify the more common types of pasta on Earth with only one eye open. You know the kind I’m talking about: rigatoni, spaghetti, ravioli or macaroni. But what if someone handed you a plate with a slew of pasta types and asked you to differentiate them from one another. Know the difference between vermicelli and cappellini off the top of your head? Oh, you do, do you? Ok, smart alec. How about the difference between vermicelli and vermicelloni? Stuck yet?
As you can see, this graphic is a survival guide of the highest order. If you memorize this graphic–if you know it cold, that is–you’ll never be in a situation where you can’t identify a pasta again. And frankly, that’s the best thing in life to strive for. Ready for the grading portion? Let’s roll (into a pasta, that is).
Design: A-
This design is dandy for a few reasons. The first that is that it is unique and different. The second is that there is so much happening on the page that it makes you want to read all about it. We could not give it a solid “A” because more attention could have been given to the face of the human in the middle of the graphic eating his pasta.
Content: A-
An excellent research job on the part of the creator. The information is presented in a complex, yet straightforward way, making this a guide that all Italian restaurant kitchens, even mobile kitchens, could and probably should hang on their walls. Culinary schools should also put it on the walls of their kitchens. True Italian food lovers should put several of these posters on the walls of their abodes and well…I think you get the picture. This graphic should be everywhere.
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Did you know that beer has its own language, and that it’s language is snobbish at that? Someone has submitted one of the most unique concepts for an infographic that this blog has ever seen: How to talk like a Stereotypical Beer Snob. The graphic examines common beer terminology–everything from hops to pops to IBUS–and then shoves some beer currently on the market under the microscope. By the end of the graphic, the creator reveals his strong distaste for Coors Light. (But is he treating Coors Light fairly, or does he have an axe to grind?)
So, according to the graphic, beer is one of the most commonly consumed drinks in world history and has four major ingredients. Water, hops, malt, and yeast. You create different tastes for beers by combining these primary ingredients in different ways. The graphic looks under the hood and pokes through every last detail of hops, malt, yeast, body, and IBU. Let’s quickly summarize:
Hops: These poky little pests are what give beer much of its aroma and taste. The main hops you and I are used to are British, American, and European ones. The graphic shows that they are composed of different things.
Malt: The main purpose of this is to balance out the hops. It’s composed of barely and wheat, and also comes in different flavors.
Yeast: I’m certain you know what yeast is, but just to renew, yeast is probably the most key ingredient since it’s what creates the alcohol in the drink.
Body: This is how the beer feels in your mouth, whether it be watery of heavy–the beer that is.
IBU: If you’ve ever had Arrogant Bastard Ale, than you’ve experienced a mighty harsh IBU. IBU stands for International Bitterness Units; it represents how bitter the beer is.
Now, as to the question about whether the graphic’s creator has an axe to grind when it comes to his hate for Corona Light. Does he? I would say no. The website he is associated with is a language one, so he’s not a competitor. Maybe he just really, really, really hates Coors Light. He wouldn’t be the first. Hell, the beer is so low-class it probably wouldn’t even attract many bids at a penny auction
Infographics Scorecard
Design: C+
What could have been a very strong concept unfortunately missed the mark. Lackluster colors and boorish design have derailed this graphic’s chance of getting a B- or higher.
Content: B-
Again, missed opportunities abound here. A real chance on the part of the writer to show outlandish or uncommon facts about beer. Instead the writer chose to play it safe and fill the graphic with run-of-the-mill info that a reader could find elsewhere.
Graphic courtesy of Pimsleur Approach.
