Gallery: Fascinating Charts Reveal What Foods Americans Have Been Googling
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The Rhythm of Food looks at what food-related terms Americans have been Googling for the past 12 years.
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The infographics plot 12 years of data on a radial "year clock."
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Each year is assigned a color.
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Moritz Stefaner, the data viz's designer, plotted 52 weeks of Google Trends information around the radial graph.
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The graphs reveal seasonal trends. Like gefilte fish, which is most popular around Passover.
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Mint Juleps are Googled most in the spring around the Kentucky Derby.
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Turkey's prime time is, you guessed it, Thanksgiving.
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Weirdly, fruit salad has four search spikes a year.
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Coffee is always popular.
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Cold brew coffee has increased in Google searchers in recent years, but it's always most popular during the summer months.
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Spinach's most Googled week was in 2006 after *E. coli* was found on the vegetable in 26 states.
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Searches for kumquat spiked in 2006 after Nike named a sneaker after the fruit.
