The Average American Eats Almost 2,000 Pounds of Food Per Year

The average adult requires around 2,000 calories per day as part of a healthy diet, which is a fact that most people appear to be aware of. As a general rule, this can vary greatly depending on your level of exercise and fitness, but it's kind of the industry norm. How much food is that, though? What does that translate to in a year?

There aren't many recent statistics on this subject, but the Department of Agriculture estimated in 2011 that the average American consumes 1,996 pounds of food annually. That rhinoceros is quite huge. 197 pounds were given by cereals and wheat. Stunningly, dairy weighed in at 630 pounds. Meat weighed a very moderate 185 pounds.

If you enjoy sweets, it may not come as a surprise that 141 pounds of the food are made up entirely of sugars. Although the average American was only ingesting 2,000 calories per day, they were also getting between 2,700 and 3663 calories daily.