Great interactive tool from National Geographic in their "Future of Food" Series - What the World Eats.
Daily diets vary considerably around the world. In this interactive tool, "What the World Eats", you can select different countries or regions to see how consumption patters vary from country (or region) to country, and from year to year for a fifty year period. Click on "grams" to understand the quantities of food consumed per person in each place. Alternatively, view the breakdown by calories to measure how that balance of food translates into fuel and energy. Percentages in the pie chart reflect the proportion of each item in the overall diet.
For example, when you click on the United States, you find that in the year 1961 the average daily calories consumed were 2,882; slide the bottom bar forward to 2011 and the average daily calories consumed were 3,641. From this same graph you get the break down consumed of food types and information specific for the area. For example, did you know that "People in the U.S. consume more than two and a half times as many grams of vegetable oil per day than they did 50 years ago, accounting for more than half of the 26% increase in calorie consumption."
There is a lot of interesting information, facts and trivia in this tool. Check it out for yourself: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/
