8. Saudi Arabia
Obesity: 33.7%
Diabetes: 20%
Rank: 26.85
The national dish of Saudi Arabia, the number 8 on our list of countries with the worst food, unhealthiest cuisines in the world is Kabsa. It’s a rice dish spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, saffron, bay leaves, nutmeg among other things along with some sort of meat and vegetables. By now you’re probably noticing the pattern I mentioned before: that the countries with the worst food all have a very similar diet based on the types of food these countries have been consuming for thousands of years. What makes them the unhealthiest cuisines in the world is that they’ve strayed from the dishes adopted from other cultures (Saudi Arabian cuisine has a lot of Levantine and Egyptian influence) and all started eating more American food over the years. Of course, Saudi Arabia still has a decent amount of traditional folks who regularly consume the staple foods that the country has been accustomed to for so many years. Foods like fava beans, yogurt, dates, wheat, rice, and chicken.