Food · Puzzle #22 · Wednesday, October 21
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
- Protein: 1 pt per 2.5 g of protein per 100 g
- Carbs: 1 pt per 6 g of carbs per 100 g
- From Asia: 10 pts if first grown or made in Asia
- Calcium: 1 pt per 20 mg of calcium per 100 g
- Most looked-up: 1 pt per 60,000 Wikipedia views in 2025
- Calorie bomb: 1 pt per 50 calories per 100 g
- Salty: 1 pt per doubling over 1 mg of sodium per 100 g
- Sugar rush: 1 pt per 3 g of sugar per 100 g
The best board
The best board is hidden while some of these items are still in play: they're on a board again within 14 days.
The lineup, figure by figure
Bacon
Crispy strips of cured pork belly
Photo: Made20rder555, Public domain Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Frozen yogurt
Soft-serve swirls of yogurt
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Frozen yogurt has 24 g of sugar per 100 g, so its best fit on this board was Sugar rush, worth 8.0. Its weakest was From Asia, worth 0.0, since it wasn't first grown or made in Asia.
- Protein
- has 4 g of protein per 100 g (1.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 24 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (4.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- wasn't first grown or made in Asia (0.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Calcium
- has 143 mg of calcium per 100 g (7.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 65,904 times in 2025 (1.1) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Calorie bomb
- has 159 calories per 100 g (3.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Salty
- has 87 mg of sodium per 100 g (6.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 24 g of sugar per 100 g (8.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
White chocolate
Cocoa butter candy, no cocoa solids
Photo: Mixy Lorenzo, CC BY 2.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Pecans
Nut behind a Thanksgiving pie
Photo: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Raisins
Dried grapes, a lunchbox classic
Photo: Paweł Kuźniar (Jojo_1, Jojo), CC BY-SA 3.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Onion
Bulb that makes you cry when you chop it
Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0 On this board Onion scored best in From Asia (10.0): it was first grown or made in Asia. Protein was its weakest fit (0.4): it has 1.1 g of protein per 100 g.
- Protein
- has 1.1 g of protein per 100 g (0.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Carbs
- has 9.3 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (1.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- From Asia
- was first grown or made in Asia (10.0) Source: Wikipedia
- Calcium
- has 23 mg of calcium per 100 g (1.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 425,410 times in 2025 (7.1) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Calorie bomb
- has 40 calories per 100 g (0.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Salty
- has 4 mg of sodium per 100 g (2.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Sugar rush
- has 4.2 g of sugar per 100 g (1.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Miso
Fermented soybean paste for soup
Photo: https://publicdomainq.net/miso-0018849/, CC0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
Avocado
Creamy fruit mashed into guacamole
Photo: HaJunkiyada, CC BY-SA 4.0 Its figures are hidden while it's still in play: it's on a board again within 14 days.
