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2,500 lbs.

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Using the Recommended Daily Intake(RDI) and the Daily Value(DV) of foods for people 4 years or older eating 2,000 calories per day, as recommended by the United States Food & Drug Administration(FDA), as our reference point, we can determine that each human would need to ingest the following on a daily basis in order to remain healthy, etc:

Fat: 65 g

Saturated Fatty Acids: 20 g

Cholesterol: 300 mg

Sodium: 2, 300 mg

Potassium: 4, 700 mg

Carbohydrate: 300 g

Fiber: 25 g

Protein: 50 g

Timesing this by 365, for the days of the year, we get:

Fat: 23,725 g

Saturated Fatty Acids: 7, 300 g

Cholesterol: 109, 500 mg

Sodium: 839, 500 mg

Potassium: 1, 715, 500 mg

Carbohydrate: 109, 500 g

Fiber: 9, 125 g

Protein: 18, 250 g

Or, converting to kilograms(and then to pounds), we get:

Fat: 23.73 kg; 52.2 lbs

Saturated Fatty Acids: 7.3 kg; 16.1 lbs

Cholesterol: 0.11 kg; 0.2 lbs

Sodium: 0.84 kg; 1.8 lbs

Potassium: 1.72 kg; 3.8 lbs

Carbohydrate: 109.5 kg; 240.9 lbs

Fiber: 9.13 kg; 20.1 lbs

Protein: 18.25 kg; 40.2 lbs

For a grand total of:

170.58 kg

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376.06 lbs

This is how much food is *recommended* on a yearly basis for a person to stay healthy...however, actual consumption among individuals will vary wildly both ways, from under to over-consumption, and also without considering food wastage, etc.

Barring any quotable numbers on the matter(which I couldn't find in total, only a breakdown of how many eggs, etc), can we reasonably say an average of between 300 to 1000 lbs of food per year? The first answer's claim of 2500 seems a bit high...more than 6 times the recommended amount?

PS: I tried using Canada's Food Guide as well but because it uses millilitres as well as grams(ie: volume instead of weight), it was harder to work with and I abandoned it.

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