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Awesome Graphic – Our Annual Food Consumption by Category

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click for fullsize image at visualeconomics.com

You’ve got to check this out. The numbers will frighten you. On average, over the course of a year, each of us  consumes:

53 gallons of soda (per person, factoring in babies  and health freaks who read fooducate)

141 lbs of sugar and other sweeteners like high fructose corn syrup, PLUS 24 lbs of artificial sweeteners

23 lbs of pizza and 24 lbs of ice cream

29 lbs of french fries (now it seems a bit low compared to the pizza and ice cream)

Think about this when you do your grocery shopping this weekend…

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  • Madison

    Not sure about those weight numbers considering both BMIs come to exactly 28.1. Seems a little questionable. Horrifying and I doubt they’re off by much, but the exact same number? Seems suspicious. It puts us 3/5 of the way to the average American being obese. That is terrifying and nauseating.

    Part of me wants to open a restaurant and make them stand on a scale before they eat. If they hit a BMI of over 25 and do not pass the eye test, refuse service. I get there are exceptions to the BMI rule, Washington QB Jake Locker being a great one. However for the average person, it’s completely accurate. As a 5’3 female, I have to be less than 105lbs to be underweight and over 140lbs to be over weight. That’s a huge range.

    Does anyone else have issues eating after reading these charts? I try to remember that I do not fall into it, but geez!

  • Diane Beere

    FRESH, FRESH, FRESH IS THE MOTTO. Whoever said food was to be full of artificial ingredients after it left the ground it was grown in? And whoever said food plants should be sprayed with insecticides while it was growing in the ground? The insecticides used in the farming of our food and the chemicals added in the processing of our food jeopardize our nutritional health, moreover, the over abundance of added sugar and salt to all food production has been shown to contribute to heart problems and diabetes. This is life saving information and hopefully it can be transforming for a better way of making food choices.

  • Stan

    What the chart doesn’t show is that Americans spend 90 percent of their food dollars on processed food. That’s a much better indicator of the poor quality of food we eat.

  • http://www.growingraw.com GrowingRaw

    I was doing some research last week and learnt that 85% of Australian adults don’t eat the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables each day. I knew that there were lots of people that don’t get enough fruit and veg, but I didn’t imagine the percentage would be so high.

  • Corey

    With no pesticides… there wouldn’t be nearly enough food to go around, a great majority would spoil in the field, as it did back in the day… which is why the pesticides were developed! whoa!@Diane Beere