When you compare the amount food a typical American family consumes in a week with that of people in countries like Guatemala, Bhutan and Chad, you can't help but be astonished.
Photograher Peter Menzel highlights these diffrences in his book Hungry Planet: What The World Eats. The book contains full-page photographs of what families around the world eat in one week.
Menzel found that industrialized countries like the United States and have a tendency to favor processed foods while people in Ecuador, Bhuthan and India eat a more fresh fruits and vegetables.
It's also interesting to note how colorful the food is in subtropical countries like Guatemala versus that of places with a more arid climate like Mongolia.
The photojournalist explains his remarkable findings in this TED Talk. What do you make of it all? Tell us in the comments below.