These are the 10 most popular foods on Twitter

By Sean Dowling, Buzz60

A new study used Twitter to understand the health of people in neighborhoods across the United States, and in the process, discovered the most popular foods.

Coffee is the most tweeted-about, and Starbucks is the most tweeted about fast-food restaurant.

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Researchers from the University of Utah looked over 80 million geotagged tweets from more than 603,000 users in the U.S.

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Coffee was followed by beer, which is mentioned in more than 200,000 tweets.

Tweets about pizza came in third.

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Only 5 percent of the tweets even mentioned food.

Researchers found tweets from poorer neighborhoods didn't tend to mention healthy foods, while areas with more tweets about healthy foods were tied to lower rates of death and chronic diseases.

The top 10 most popular foods on Twitter are: Coffee, beer, pizza, Starbucks, IPA, wine, chicken, barbecue, ice cream, tacos.

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