The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if overeaten. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts illustrate the average proportion of food that contain sodium, saturated fats and added sugar which may be harmful if consumed too much in the USA. Overall, sodium and Saturated fat are highly taken in dinner, whereas the highest percentage of added sugar is eaten in snacks.
To begin with, sodium is eaten in small amounts in breakfast at just over ten compared to saturated fat and added sugar, with a similar amount at 16%. Moving on, there was almost one-third of sodium in Americans’ lunch while 26% of saturated fat and 19% of added sugar were added to their diet for lunch.
Furthermore, most people consumed 43% of sodium in their dinner, which was the highest compared to the other two. Next, 37% of saturated fat was consumed by people in their dinner while they added only 23% of sugar to their food. Also, 14% of sodium was noticed to be consumed in people’s snacks in the USA compared to the amount of saturated fat and added sugar eaten at 21% and 42%, respectively.
The pie charts illustrate how much sodium, saturated fat, and added sugars were consumed in average meals in the United States.
Looking from an overall perspective, the majority of two nutrients, namely sodium and saturated fat were consumed at dinner, while a lot of sugar was eaten in snacks.
Sodium consumption is highest at dinner and second highest at lunch, making up 43% and 29% of the total sodium consumption respectively. The proportions of these types of nutrients taken in at snack time and breakfast are the same, both at 14%. Dinner and lunch also account for the largest and the second largest proportion of total saturated fat intake respectively, at 37% and just over a quarter. However, a greater proportion is eaten at snack time, at 21%, than at breakfast, at 16%.
Compared with the other two nutrients, added sugar has a relatively low consumption level at dinner, at 23%. It is snacks that are the greatest source of sugar intake, at 42%. However, like the other nutrients, it is also consumed least at breakfast, at only 16%.