Food Fight
Which food deserves the top spot — for all the wrong reasons?
Most poopular · Ingredients
Public votes set the order. #1 is the most pooped.
Whether it reads as citrus or as soap is partly genetic: a variant near a cluster of smell receptor genes tracks with the soapy reading.
Bred to be less bitter over recent decades, which is why they divide people by age as much as by taste.
A by-product of brewing beer. The leftover yeast gets concentrated into a spread, and the original factory bought it from the breweries next door.
Banned on the Singapore metro for its smell, with a fine attached. The taste, confusingly, is closer to custard.
Ground peanuts, and little else in the plain version. The stabilizers exist so it does not separate on the shelf.
Dried grapes, and the ingredient most likely to be picked out of something by hand.
Picked green and ripened with ethylene gas in transit, which is why it can travel across the world and still arrive yellow.
An emulsion of oil in egg yolk. It holds together because the yolk keeps the two liquids from separating.
Closer to animals than to plants on the tree of life, and the part you eat is only the fruiting body.
Inedible straight from the tree: they have to be cured in brine, lye or salt before the bitterness is gone.
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