This figure compares a rough documented age anchor for each food, ingredient, or drink.

• The parser only uses explicit year or century language it can support from the food page lead.
• Ancient and prehistoric phrasing is converted into one comparable anchor point, because a game still needs a number.
• This is about documented origin language, not the first moment humans ever cooked something similar.

Food lineages are messy. The number is a playable approximation, not a birth certificate.