<p>Thanks to Google’s newest tool, now we can really compare apples to oranges. According to a recent NPR article, Google has launched a new nutrition comparison tool that tracks and records data including calories, sugar content, and more all with a simple search.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/google_produc_smackdown_mar_2014_body_01.jpg" alt="Cropped images 032414" /></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p> If you ever wanted to see how certain super greens stack up against each other, like kale or swiss chard, for example, all you have to do is type in “kale vs swiss chard” or “compare kale and swiss chard” into Google and you get an entire chart filled with relevant data relating to those two greens. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/24/291963536/apples-vs-oranges-google-tool-offers-ultimate-nutrition-smackdown" target="_new"> NPR – Apples vs Oranges </a><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> Of course, the tool goes beyond food items in the same category. NPR suggests checking out “bacon vs kale.” I imagine you can guess who wins out in that battle!<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> “We noticed that people were doing a lot of food and nutrition searches – multi-step searches on one food and another food,” Google spokeswoman Krisztina Radosavljevic-Szilagyi tells NPR. “These things often compared to one another, so we thought, why don’t we make it easy?”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> NPR also reports that you can even change up your search terms to include the preparation and cooking method of the food. Instead of simply saying “potato,” you can say, “potato, mashed, with milk and butter,” and Google tweaks the data accordingly.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> It appears that Google might have more up its sleeve in the future as well… “There are plenty more complicated food, recipe, and nutrition questions to help people answer,” continued Radosavljevic-Szilagyi. “We want to give as many answers to as many complicated questions as possible.”<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"> What will Google think of next?</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/24/291963536/apples-vs-oranges-google-tool-offers-ultimate-nutrition-smackdown" target="_new"> NPR – Apples vs Oranges </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
