How much food in term of weight on average do we consume per year?

Question

I got the figures per the average from poor farmers kept a ton of gram per adult and sell the rest in exchange for other needs, meaning those farmers got small plot of land but produce more than enough to feed the family with some surplus.

Has anybody got any more updated or scientific means for me to get a tonnage figure on food per adult consume per year?

I only need an average tonnage figure of food an average adult consume in a year.

I appreciate we city folks don't think that way, cause we might just drink tons of coke or wine instead of fish and chips.

But you understood fuel we need to burn inside us, in terms of tonnage per year.

Your help and consideration will be much appreciate for my project, an article I have just finish but need to further analysis the figures.

Regards

Bill

Answer 1

200 kg (440 pounds) of grain contains the calories needed by an adult per year. (Grain is widely used as a measure of food production as it supplies more than half humanity's calories.)  These two sites should give you a lot of information to work with. (These figures came from the second one)

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/aug...

http://www.worldsocialism.org/articles/h...

Answer 2

Hello Bill,

There's only one group of people (that I know of) which pretty much have this down to a rather exact science...the LDS (Mormons).

For one "average" adult person, to make it through a year, you need:

Grains:

150 pounds of wheat (whole grains, not ground)

25 pounds white flour

25 pound corn meal

25 pounds oats

50 pounds rice (white rice, brown does not store)

25 pounds of pastas

300 pounds total

Fats & Oils

shortening 4 lbs

Vegtable oil 2 gallons

Mayo 2 qts

Salad dressing 1 quart

Peanut butter 4 pounds

25 pounds total of fats & oils

Legumes:

Beans, dry 30 lbs

Lima Beans 5lbs

Soy Beans 10lbs

Split Peas 5lbs

Lentils 5lbs

Dry Soup Mix 5lbs

Total Legumes 60lbs

Sugars:

Honey 3lbs

Sugar 40lbs

Brown Sugar 3lbs

Molasses 1lbs

Corn Syrup 3lbs

Jams 3lbs

Fruit Drink, powdered 6lbs

Flavored Gelatin 1lbs

Total Sugars 60lbs

Milk:

Dry Milk 60lbs

Evaporated Milk 12cans

Other 13lbs

Total Dairy 75lbs

Cooking Essentials:

Baking Powder 1lbs

Baking Soda 1lbs

Yeast 1/2lbs

Salt 5lbs

Vinegar 1/2gal

A human can survive on the above (barring alergies, and of course they must know how to cook).  Of course water must be added.

It would take about 600 pounds of food, plus a few gallons of varrious items to get one average adult human through a year.  This is not a diet an adult human could do hard physical labor on.  For that, you would need to basically double everything.  However a human doing an average office type job would be just fine on this diet (barring allergies).  This diet provides complete protiens, so it would even allow teenagers to continue to mature, wounds to heal, the women to carry pregnancies to term.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Who is LDS with a major food storage pantry, and who reads about the requirements/basic needs of people for food storage all the time.

Answer 3

i have no idea but i know we consume 90 lbs. of chicken per year! <3 amanda

Answer 4

That depends if you include the food that livestock consume