Almost certainly there is the world today enough food to feed every person healthily but as we know issues of distribution intrudes on this ideal. Perceptions of what is healthy from one country to another cloud this too and, within any country, notions of what is an acceptable standard affects the impression of the standard of life in that country.
In the UK there are food banks where poor people can supplement their food stocks. Even here people with wealth enough to not need these food banks abuse the system. Yet there are no standards which the outside observer can relate as to what the poor get and what they need for good health. Tesco, a large supermarket here in the UK, periodically encourage their customers to donate from a list of items to a basket at the front door as they leave. Reasonably these are items that won’t rot, are easily opened and don’t necessarily need much in the way of heating or cooking - biscuits, tinned and packaged soups etc. Perhaps this in itself reflects the dire state that the recipients are in - maybe unable to cook or heat their food, or only have the strength to open a packet but maybe also the inadequate way we are brought up to understand how to fend for healthy survival.
This is the beginning of a discourse on what we ultimately want to achieve for the world in healthy nutrition.
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