When you go down a food chain continuing to ask "what does it eat?" the last living thing that you will land upon is an autotroph.
Autotrophs are the primary producers as they (photoautotrophs) use the energy either from the sun to prepare there food by the process of photosynthesis or, more rarely, obtain chemical energy through oxidation (chemoautotrophs) to make organic substances from inorganic ones.
Autotrophs get consumed by the primary consumers in the food chain.
