The diagram illustrates the amount of three types of nutrients contained in four typical meals a day, which may cause health-related problems if eaten too much.
Overall, dinner contains the highest proportions of sodium and saturated fat, whereas added sugar is most concentrated in snacks. On the contrary, all three substances have the lowest amount in breakfast.
In detail, the level of sodium included in dinner is the highest proportion of nutrients in a meal: 43%, almost three times higher than breakfast and snacks. With 29% contained, sodium is also the dominant nutrient in lunch. The percentage of this substance in two other meals is the same, 14% per meal. A similar pattern can be observed for saturated fat. The highest proportion is found in dinner (37%), followed by lunch (26%). However, these figures are lower than those for sodium. In both snacks and breakfast, the proportion of saturated fat is slightly higher than that of sodium, by 7% points and 2% points respectively.
On the other hand, the pattern for added sugar differs from the other two nutrients with snacks accounting for slightly more than two-fifths of the chart, just 1% lesser than the percentage of sodium in dinner. For dinner and lunch, this nutrient makes up the least in all three nutrients, at 23% and 19% in order. The proportion of added sugar in breakfast is the same as saturated fat: 16%.