The given graph provides information on the consumption of different three kinds of spreads – margarine, low fat & reduced spreads, butter between 1981 and 2007.
Overall, there was an increase in the figures of lowfats & reduced spreads; meanwhile, a decrease was seen in the case of both margarine and butter. Additionally, the all-time high of the graph was recorded in the figures of butter in 1996 while the opposite was witnessed in the data on low fat & reduced spreads in 1996.
On the one hand, the consumption of butter showed a notable decrease from 140 grams in 1981 to over 50 grams in 2007. While increasing from 1981 to 1986, the consumption of butter experienced a dramatic decline from 1986 to 2007, being lower than margarine’s consumption.
On the other hand, despite being started in 1996, the consumption of low fat & reduced spreads indicated a significant increase in the number of grams, from 10 grams in 1996 to over 80 grams in 2001. In 2001, the number of grams consuming low fat & reduced spreads and margarine exhibited a similar trend in their figures, with each showing a decrease but margarine was more dramatic than low fat & reduced spreads.
