Food Nutrition Visualization for Diabetes
Interactive infographic that helps people explore food nutrition, glycemic index, and diabetes-conscious meal choices.
Explore the project at: https://va.tech.purdue.edu/PacificVis/
Brief
Food Nutrition Visualization for Diabetes is an interactive infographic focused on diabetes-conscious food exploration. It visualizes nutrition information for 93 types of food and helps users reason about glycemic index, food categories, and meal balance.
Problem
People managing diabetes often need to understand how food choices affect blood glucose, nutrition, and overall health. Nutrition data is dense, and tables alone make it hard to compare foods or build a balanced meal.
Approach
The project turns food and nutrition data into an interactive visual experience. Users can search for foods, explore glycemic index categories, and hover or click on visual elements to inspect food portions, nutrition units, daily recommended amounts, and related health information.
Highlights
- Visualized nutrition data for 93 food types recommended for people concerned with diabetes.
- Connected food choices to glycemic index categories: low, moderate, and high.
- Designed exploratory interactions for lines, cups, semicircles, legends, and food categories.
- Framed the experience around a practical question: what can I eat?
Outcome
The project helps users explore suitable food choices and arrange meals with more context around nutrition, glycemic index, and diabetes concerns.
Links
Explore the PacificVis project
Stack
Interactive infographic design, nutrition data, health visualization, glycemic index visualization.