Three pie charts illustrate the average percentages of three types of nutrients contained in breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks’ consumption in America. Overall, there are similar patterns show in sodium and saturated fat, and dinner is the most major source. On the contrary, added sugar represents a distinct pattern with snacks as the main source of it.
For sodium consumption, dinner accounts for the largest share at 43%. Following closely to this, lunch represents 29%, and recorded the same percentages at 14% for both snacks and breakfast. Meanwhile, saturated fat has a similar pattern. Dinner is the peak value at 37%, and lunch, snacks, and breakfast show the second, third, and fourth proportions at 26%, 21%, and 16%, respectively.
In contrast, added sugar experienced a different pattern, which the snacks make up the largest proportion at 42%. Represents a half of the snacks’ proportion is dinner, at 23%, and is subsequently followed by lunch and breakfast, with a 3% gap in consumption percentages.
