Across Capital, Marx is attentive to food consumption and nourishment as conditions of the reproduction of labour and as manifestations of the immiseration of the working class. In chapter 25 of Volume I, Marx illustrates the general law of capitalist accumulation by analysing the living conditions of labourers in Britain in 1846– 66. Drawing on public health investigations, Marx discusses the deficient diets of labourers as resulting from expanding capital accumulation as well as capital centralisation and concentration. Marx reports nutrient tables indicating low consumption of food rich in nitrogen (i.e. meats, fish and fruit and vegetables) among the working class, with agricultural labourers and women suffering from the most deficient diets. This chapter builds on Marx's analysis of nutrition and health depletion of the poor occurring through the expansion of capitalist production with two aims. First, it investigates whether food consumption among the poor in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa presents similar patterns to the British labourers’ diets described in Capital. Using primary data collected in Mozambique and Ghana, it shows that scarce consumption of protein-rich food continues to be a defining feature of the poor's diets. However, another key aspect is the penetration of packaged and processed food, which is a manifestation of a globalised food regime and the expansion of capital in food production. Second, this chapter provides insights on the methodological approach used to collect data on food consumption and the linkages with the food system, which requires multiple levels of analysis and data sources.