What has been depicted in the bar chart is the proportion of people eating five portions of fruits and vegetables daily in the United Kingdom between 2001 and 2008. Overll, the whole time frame, the total number of people interested significantly. Moreover, the share of women ranked first among other participants in the survey over the given period, while that of children stood at the last in the amount allocated.
Women experienced an increased gradually, starting at a bit above 20 per cent in 2001 , and finishing at around 35 % in 2006, after which decreased slightly and reached nearly one-third at the end of the period.
Men and children followed similar pattern each other in the first three, they remained unchanged to nearly 17 % and 12 %, respectively. From then on, altough both saw a rising trend, but the figure for children continued to rise until they reached a high of 26 % in 2007 before falling back slightly to 24 % in 2008, that of men had risen to approximately 27% by 2006, and declined slightly to just below 30% in the end.