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Top Super Bowl Foods by the Numbers

Whatever our healthy resolutions for the New Year, it seems that we as Americans agree: the Super Bowl is an occasion for indulgence.
By Anna Monette Roberts
Chips, beer, wings, and dip are just a few foods that Americans consume a whole lot of during the Super Bowl. We're talking millions of pounds! If you've ever wondered what the true numbers amount to, then keep clicking for the breakdown.
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Whatever our healthy resolutions for the New Year, it seems that we as Americans agree — the Super Bowl is an occasion for indulgence. Check out the most popular food and beverage choices during the biggest football event of the year.If you're searching for some spectacular game day recipes to make for your favorite football fans, check out these party-perfect appetizers or these much-loved eats from the NFL's favorite moms.
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Chips, beer, wings, and dip are just a few foods that Americans consume a whole lot of during the Super Bowl. We're talking millions of pounds! If you've ever wondered what the true numbers amount to, then keep clicking for the breakdown.
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Chips, beer, wings, and dip are just a few foods that Americans consume a whole lot of during the Super Bowl. We're talking millions of pounds! If you've ever wondered what the true numbers amount to, then keep clicking for the breakdown.
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Beer

The Super Bowl is the eighth-biggest day in beer sales for the US, amounting to 49.3 million cases, most of which are consumed at home and not at bars.
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The Super Bowl is one of the 10 biggest days in beer sales for the U.S., amounting to 50 million cases, most of which are consumed at home and not at bars.
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Potato Chips

Compared to all other chips, pretzels, and popcorn, potato chips are the favorite Super Bowl snack: 11.2 million pounds of potato chips were consumed in 2011.
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Compared to all other chips, pretzels, and popcorn, potato chips are the favorite Super Bowl snack; viewers forked over $184 million in 2013 for potato chips alone — compared to $40 million for pretzels and $12 million for rice cakes — and 11.2 million pounds of potato chips were consumed.
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Tortilla Chips

Tortilla chips were a close second, amounting to 8.2 million pounds!
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Tortilla chips were a close second, amounting to 8.2 million pounds!
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Avocados

Holy guacamole! Tons of avocados are sold during the Super Bowl, used in staple dips like seven-layer dip and guacamole. In 2011, around 69.6 million pounds of avocados were sold for the Super Bowl. Compare that insane amount to the average weekly avocado shipments of 20 million pounds.
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Holy guacamole! Tons of avocados are sold during the Super Bowl, used in staple dips like seven-layer dip and guacamole. In 2013, around 79 million pounds of avocados were sold for the Super Bowl. Compare that insane amount to the average weekly avocado shipments of 20 million pounds.
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Chicken Wings

Americans consumed 1.25 billion chicken wings — the equivalent of over 100 million pounds of wings — during the 2012 Super Bowl.
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Americans consumed 1.23 billion chicken wings — the equivalent of over 100 million pounds of wings — during the weekend of Super Bowl XLVII.
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Pizza

Pizza Hut's 2012 Super Bowl statistics claimed that over 2 million pizzas were sold on the big game day. Of those orders, 80 percent included America's favorite topping: pepperoni. As for Domino's, Americans consumed 11 million slices of Domino's pizza on Super Bowl Sunday.
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Dominoe's Pizza estimated 11 million slices were sold on the big game day, and 300,000 online orders were made on Super Bowl Sunday in 2013.
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More Perfect Party Foods

Chips, beer, wings, and dip are just a few foods that Americans consume a whole lot of during the Super Bowl. We're talking millions of pounds! If you've ever wondered what the true numbers amount to, then keep clicking for the breakdown.
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