Drawing on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we summarize the needs of the world’s 8 billion people into five categories: Food Sufficiency, Food Safety, Food Diversity, Food-related Health and Longevity (Food Coupling), and Food Sustainability—collectively referred to as the “Five Food Needs.” For all 8 billion eaters worldwide, every individual may have all five types of needs at the same time; what differs is the specific content, intensity, and relative importance of those needs. Therefore, the “Five Eater Needs” pyramid model is a hierarchy-of-needs framework with the individual eater as its basic unit.