Weigh This

Just a little interesting F.Y.I.

Research from the Food and Brand Lab has been credited with improving the deeper scientific understanding of food as well as the discovery of some simple everyday insights:

A person will eat an average of 92% of any food they serve themselves.
The average person makes over 250 decisions about food each day.
The Nutritional Gatekeeper of a home influences an estimated 72% of all of the food their family eats.
Because of visual illusions, people (even bartenders) pour 28% more liquid into a short wide glasses than tall ones.
50% of the snack foods bought in bulk are eaten within 6 days.

Credit for this info goes to: The Food and Brand Lab is a non-profit research facility at Cornell University which focuses on why people buy and eat the foods they do in the quantities they do. Directed by Brian Wansink