How many steps does food take?
Six ingredients. Four versions of each. Which one has travelled furthest?
Tap the cards in order, from least to most processed. Then we show roughly which steps each version usually goes through. Takes a couple of minutes, and there is no wrong way to eat, only fun guesses.
A learning game – not nutrition advice.
The game needs JavaScript
The real food journey is a small sorting game shown with JavaScript. In the meantime, you can read about the e-book Nice to meat you, Marie’s guide to real food.
Tap in order: least processed first
Your order
A simplified picture of how the food is usually made.
Journey complete
The score only counts how many cards landed in the right place, not how you eat.
Which of your everyday meals do you think has the most steps? Small swaps count.
Want to keep going?
Researchers sometimes group food into four categories by how it has been processed, for example in a classification called NOVA (Monteiro et al., 2017). This game is a simplified bit of play with the same idea.
A learning game – not nutrition advice.