Food · Puzzle #10 · Friday, October 9
Food: the board
Eight items, eight categories, one place each. Here is the board with every figure and where it comes from, and the best way to place them. Play today's Food.
The categories
- Potassium: 1 pt per 60 mg of potassium per 100 g
- Calcium: 1 pt per 20 mg of calcium per 100 g
- Cholesterol: 1 pt per 10 mg of cholesterol per 100 g
- Iron: 1 pt per 0.5 mg of iron per 100 g
- Fat: 1 pt per 4 g of fat per 100 g
- Wake-up call: 10 pts if it has caffeine
- From Asia: 10 pts if first grown or made in Asia
- Salty: 1 pt per doubling over 1 mg of sodium per 100 g
The best board
- Hummus in From Asia: was first grown or made in Asia (10.0)
- Blue cheese in Calcium: has 528 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0)
- Dark chocolate in Fat: has 43 g of fat per 100 g (10.0)
- Prunes in Potassium: has 732 mg of potassium per 100 g (10.0)
- Nachos in Salty: has 313 mg of sodium per 100 g (8.3)
- Seaweed (nori) in Iron: has 29 mg of iron per 100 g (10.0)
- Chocolate hazelnut spread in Wake-up call: has caffeine (10.0)
- Roast turkey in Cholesterol: has 101 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0)
The most this board could score: 78.3 of 80.
The lineup, figure by figure
Hummus
Chickpea dip with tahini and lemon
Photo: Beyrouthhh at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0 - Potassium
- has 312 mg of potassium per 100 g (5.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 47 mg of calcium per 100 g (2.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 2.5 mg of iron per 100 g (5.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 18 g of fat per 100 g (4.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- was first grown or made in Asia (10.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 426 mg of sodium per 100 g (8.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Blue cheese
Cheese streaked with blue mold
Photo: Véronique PAGNIER, CC BY-SA 3.0 - Potassium
- has 256 mg of potassium per 100 g (4.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 528 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 75 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (7.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 0.31 mg of iron per 100 g (0.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 29 g of fat per 100 g (7.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 1,146 mg of sodium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Dark chocolate
Chocolate that's 70% cacao or more
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0 - Potassium
- has 715 mg of potassium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 73 mg of calcium per 100 g (3.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 3 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 12 mg of iron per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 43 g of fat per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has caffeine (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 20 mg of sodium per 100 g (4.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Prunes
Dried plums, famous for keeping things moving
Photo: Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0 - Potassium
- has 732 mg of potassium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 43 mg of calcium per 100 g (2.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 0.93 mg of iron per 100 g (1.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.38 g of fat per 100 g (0.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 2 mg of sodium per 100 g (1.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Nachos
Tortilla chips smothered in melted cheese
Photo: chee.hong from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, CC BY 2.0 - Potassium
- has 362 mg of potassium per 100 g (6.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 63 mg of calcium per 100 g (3.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 3 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 0.75 mg of iron per 100 g (1.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 22 g of fat per 100 g (5.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 313 mg of sodium per 100 g (8.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Seaweed (nori)
Dried sheets wrapped around sushi
Photo: Alice Wiegand, (Lyzzy), CC BY-SA 3.0 - Potassium
- has 1,363 mg of potassium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 120 mg of calcium per 100 g (6.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 29 mg of iron per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 7.7 g of fat per 100 g (1.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- was first grown or made in Asia (10.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 1,048 mg of sodium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Chocolate hazelnut spread
Spread of hazelnuts and cocoa
Photo: Janine from South Korea, United States, CC BY 2.0 - Potassium
- has 407 mg of potassium per 100 g (6.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 108 mg of calcium per 100 g (5.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 0 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 4.4 mg of iron per 100 g (8.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 30 g of fat per 100 g (7.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has caffeine (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 41 mg of sodium per 100 g (5.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Roast turkey
The Thanksgiving centerpiece
Photo: Patrick Fitzgerald from Atlanta, GA, USA, CC BY 2.0 - Potassium
- has 239 mg of potassium per 100 g (4.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 13 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Cholesterol
- has 101 mg of cholesterol per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Iron
- has 1 mg of iron per 100 g (2.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 3.8 g of fat per 100 g (1.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Wake-up call
- has no caffeine (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Salty
- has 101 mg of sodium per 100 g (6.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
