With the city hungry for stay-at-home leadership, Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Corey Johnson grabbed the spotlight Thursday by unveiling plans to combat food inequity in the Big Apple.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio flew back from Detroit after a poorly received showing in Democratic presidential primary debate, Johnson, a front-runner in the 2021 mayoral race, was in Brooklyn releasing a new City Council report highlighting “hunger problems” that low-income residents face while offering solutions on how to provide healthy accessible, food to all New Yorkers.

“Access to adequate nutritious food is a human right,” Johnson told roughly 100 supporters while discussing the report at PS 265 in Cypress Hills.

He added, “Food is power! We feel it when we eat it.”

The 63-page report, “titled “Growing Food Equity in New York City,” reads like a campaign platform for Johnson even though other council members helped him put it together. It highlights tens of millions of dollars in funding that the Council has allocated under his watch to help hungry New Yorkers as well as proposing new methods to promote healthy eating and reduce food waste.

The report’s recommendations include upgrading school kitchens so students can chomp on “scratch-cooked menus,” offering small food pantries at some senior centers and have the Council pass legislation to establish a citywide “food policy plan” to promote healthy eating.

Over the past five months Johnson has used his speaker platform to push other policy proposals he’d likely bring to City Hall if elected mayor.

These includes using his State of the City address in March to unveil his vision to fix the city’s mass transit system, releasing plans to make the city streets safer for pedestrians and bikers and gathering at Manhattan’s John Jay College in May to unveil plans for making the criminal justice system “fairer” for all New Yorkers.

Not to be outdone, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams — another 2021 mayoral hopeful — released a statement Thursday reminding everyone that he’s a pioneer when it comes to pushing for healthy eating options, including catalyzing “a movement for city agencies to introduce ‘Meatless Mondays’ in schools and hospitals.”