Family food shops vary across the globe
The price of a family food shop varies greatly across the globe. A new study found a German family spent the equivalent of $500 (around £319), while a family in Ecuador spent $31.55 (around £20) and a family in Chad spent $1.23 (78p!).
Prof Jeya Henry, Professor of Human Nutrition and Head of Food Sciences and Nutrition at Oxford Brookes University, says in the Western world the vast proportion of what we eat today is food of high energy density.
“We produce more than 2100 different types of food from wheat alone. It is the godfather of a noodle and a strudel!” he said.
Speaking at the British Nutrition Foundation’s Annual Lecture in London, Prof Henry points out that 80% of the world now depends on just four staples – wheat, rice, corn and potato - while our ancestors had a more varied diet of natural foods, with a low energy density.
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