Sleep Research
Socially-Disconnected Sugar Highs The Sugar Counts Of America’s Top-Searched Quarantine Foods
Sugar and sleep go hand in hand, it’s not surprising. There has been many times when a piece of candy has jolted us awake only to have us crash half an hour later. Sleep Junkie is concerned about everything that can affect our ability to sleep for eight hours. So when we noticed Americans making sweet treats to help with quarantine, it was something we were interested in.
We understand the frustrations of these past months and the benefits that baking and cooking can provide to help you cope. We couldn’t help but wonder if all those extra sugary treats were causing Americans to lose more sleep?
Sleep Junkie looked at America’s most popular quarantine dishes to gain an idea of how much sugar they were using. We decided to conduct our own sugar content study.
We started by compiling a list American’s top-searched quarantine recipes using Google Trends data. Next, we added up all the ingredients to calculate the sugar content. We combined our results with the total sugar and calorie counts to find out which sugary recipes are inspiring Americans to go to the grocery store.
These results revealed that certain recipes were particularly popular in the country, but you might be surprised by some of these top-searched dishes.
First, the top-ranked recipe wasn’t the sugariest. Not even close. During the first months of social-distancing, hamburger recipes was the most searched term. The top-searched word in 12 states was hamburger recipes, with most of them being in the Midwest. Although hamburger recipes have only 3.8 grams of sugar, it is possible to send Americans into food comas following a long, remote day.
If the most loved recipe was not the most sugary, then what was it? The pound cake was the most searched recipe in North Carolina and South Carolina. The pound cake recipe contained 50.4 grams of sugar per slice, which is far more than the daily recommended intake for men and women in the Mid-Atlantic. These residents may have a higher sugar intake than usual, considering that one slice of cake might seem impossible to eat.
We also wanted to know how the viral quarantine recipes fared in sugar content. Everyone was baking bread for the first month of quarantine.
Bread recipe was the second most popular search term in five states. Residents who searched online for bread recipes would be pleased to learn that the quarantine treat they received was not so sweet. This recipe had 2.6g of sugar per serving and was therefore one of the most sweetly searched terms in the country. We can only imagine that sugary jam spread on crispy crusts could have caused a few sugar crashes.
Many Americans tried to use the quarantine as a reset or to avoid the quarantine fifteen. However, we found that many residents of many states were more inclined to eat sugary comfort food.
It will be interesting to observe if Americans become less interested in cooking as they move into longer periods with more social distance. It doesn’t matter what lifestyle Americans adopt, it is important for everyone to prioritize their mental and physical health. Our team has assembled tons of reviews and guides for everything you need to know about mattresses, sleep research, and more.
Make a nutritious midnight snack and then get into bed.
