The charts illustrate the amount of nutrients eaten in common meals in the USA.
Overall, in the USA, dinner contains the highest quantity of sodium and saturated fats with snacks having a high proportion of added sugars. Breakfast has the lowest quantity of sodium and saturated fats.
Starting with the first meal of the day, the breakfast Americans eat has the lowest percentage of all the nutrients classes in a close range of 14 to 16 percent with minimal variation. Moving on to lunch, it appears that sodium has the highest proportion with 29 percent and added sugar having the least with 19 percent and saturated fats falls in the middle. Worthy of note is the small difference in the amount of added sugar and sodium found in breakfast and lunch. Conversely there is a marked difference between the size of sodium and added sugar consumed during dinner. Worthy of note is that the levels of sodium and saturated fats are highest at dinner when compared to other meals of the day but added sugar is on the lower end.
