More empanadas and less cassava People. In Puerto Rico, Greece and Norway enjoy food more than any other country, according to a new global study. This shows the relationship between people's enjoyment of food and their overall well-being.

The study asked nearly 1,000 people in 142 countries and locations, from Australia to Algeria, whether they liked the food they ate in the past seven days. In the UK, 91% said yes, and the country's food was on par with Kazakhstan or Jamaican food in terms of satisfaction.

Despite experiencing a culinary renaissance in recent decades, the UK ranks in the bottom half of the Gallup poll.

Historic gastronomic bastions like France and Italy might be expected to rank above the UK, but British chefs are frustrated that they are lagging behind the likes of Denmark, Nepal and Mongolia. It may be. On the positive side, 88% of Brits said the majority of their food was healthy (36th out of 142 countries) and 86% said they had plenty of choice.

In contrast, people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, where cassava and rice are the staple foods, were least satisfied with their daily diet. These places were also the least likely to say most food was healthy and were also among the places where people felt they had the least choice. The Baltic nation of Lithuania, the birthplace of cepelinai, meat-filled potato dumplings, has the unwelcome honor of having the lowest food taste of any European country.

Overall, people in poor countries were less likely to answer "yes" to the three survey questions, and the opposite was true for rich countries. Uzbekistan, which claims pilof made with rice and mutton as its national dish, recorded high ratings for food enjoyment and healthy eating. However, the report's authors suggest that this may have more to do with the dictatorship, as Uzbeks tend to give positive responses in other surveys.

But wealth isn't everything when it comes to food enjoyment. The highest level of luxury was in the Caribbean country of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and has a per capita GDP similar to Romania. Coconuts and mangoes are abundant there, and popular local dishes include red beans, rice, and roast pork. Known as "sazon" and seasoned with "piqué" hot sauce.