The line graph illustrates the amount of butter and margarine was consumed in the US per person from 1980 to 2020.
Overall, while there was an gradual increase in the consumption of butter per person, the opposite was true for margarine.
In 1980, around 10.5 lbs of margarine was consumed in the US, in comparison with only 4.5 lbs amount of butter was ate at the same year. Over the 20 years, the consumption of margarine experinced a dramatic decrease to around 6 lbs per person. In constrast, a slight growth was exhibited in the amount of butter consumed to rougly 4.5 lbs.
From the years 2000 onwards, it can be seen that the amount of butter suparssed that of margarine and become the most consumed butter in the US. To be more specific, the consumption of butter was reach a peak at around 6 lbs at the end of the period, while the figure for margarine was continiously decreased to exactly 2 lbs per person during the same period.
