The charts below show the average consumption of food in the world in 2008 compared to two other countries; China and India.

The charts below show the average consumption of food in the world in 2008 compared to two other countries; China and India.

The pie charts outline the types of food people ate in 2008 compared with the consumption of these items in China and India in the same year.

As a general trend, processed food was the main energy source for the world population whereas, the two countries showed different food consumption from the world average.

According to the pie charts, just over 40% diet of the global population came from processed food in 2008 which was slightly greater than that of India and exactly 7% higher than that of China. Vegetables and fruits provided somewhat one-third dietary requirements of the Chinese citizens and precisely 23% of Indians. The world average for fruit and vegetable consumption was just below 30%.

Interestingly, nuts and seeds accounted for almost one-fifth food stocks for the Chinese, a noticeably higher rate than the world standard. Nearly one-tenth food rations in India was from nuts and seeds. Food derived from animals supplied more than one-fourth Indian dietary provisions, which was 12% higher than that of China and almost the same as the world’s dietary demands

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