I ran across this interesting ethnographic study of how people conceptualize different foods. It’s a small sample of only 27 people, so one might take the results with a grain of salt, but nonetheless, I found the following figure interesting. The results are from a “pile sorting” exercise where people were asked to group 42 different foods in terms of their similarity to one another in as many groups as they wanted.
Source:
Jayson Lusk, Food and Agricultural Economist
Published:
January 18, 2022
January 18, 2022