We call food consumption model the way man organized society to get and eat selected foods.

This last aspect is closely analyzed in the « Banquet » d’Agropolis Museum.

Foods are classified under 10 agro-nutrional categories :

Cereals

Roots and Tubers

Leguminous plants

Fruits and Vegetables

Vegetable Oils

Animal Fat

Meat and Eggs

Dairy products

Fish and Seafood

Sugar and Honey

According to their nutritional qualities, foods can be gathered under 3 groups :
 

Sugars


Slow digested sugars : Cereals, Roots, Tubers.
Fast digested sugars : Honey and sweets.



Proteins


Pulses, Meat and Eggs, Dairy products, Fish and Sea-food.



Fat


Animal Fat and Vegetable Oils.



Fibers, vitamins and minerals (foods with)


Fruits and Vegetables.

Graphs

The case of France

Graphs show food consumption models evaluated into calories (estimations are given by relative numbers (  i.e. average western European consumption = 100). Graphs is an easy way to represent food consumption. Thus the World consumption is characterized by a high relative percentage of cereal consumption (slow digested sugars) as well as pulses ( vegetable proteins) whereas the French model is characterized by a high relative percentage of cattle products (animal fat, meat and eggs, dairy products, fish and sea-food). One can see that the main vegetable consumption products are located on the right side of the graph when the main animal consumption products are on the left side (which makes it easy to read and to compare with other graphs).

The consumption models represented in the Banquet de l’Humanité
are the following :

Three poor countries : Bangladesh, Rwanda, Somalia.

Three average countries : Argentina, Colombia, Portugal.

Two rich countries : Japan, France.