IELTS exam preparation, sample answers, and tips to score a high band score in your IELTS test. Here is the representation of the pie chart portraying average consumption of food in the world in 2008 compared to two countries; China and India.
Topic 12
Four different food categories' global consumption in 2008 is shown in pie charts. The numbers compare how much food was consumed in China and India over the same year.
Comparing the two countries' eating habits to the global average, they showed distinct differences. The intake of processed foods had the highest percentage shares across all three charts.
In particular, processed food consumption accounted for 41% of total global food consumption, followed by vegetables and fruits at 29% and animal products at 25%. Only 4% of people consumed nuts and seeds.
The country with the highest percentage of processed food consumption was China, which ate 39% of it. The percentage for animal food was the same, and it was close to the global average of 25%. Fruits and vegetables made up 23% of the diet, whereas nuts and seeds made up less than 50%. With 34% and 32% respectively, vegetable and processed or packaged food consumption peaked in India in 2008. The percentage of nuts and seeds consumed in this nation was the highest among the three supplied figures, at 19%.