The diagram illustrates the rate of population who consumed fruit and vegetable five times each day in The UK between 2001 and 2008. The units are measured in percentage.
Overall, what stands out from the graph is that throughout the period women formed the highest proportion, while children’s rate showed the opposite trend.
Looking at the details, except for 2006, in other years men’ and children’s indicator followed a similar trend. In the first three years, male individuals’ and children’s figure remained stable and made up roughly 18% and nearly 13% respectively. During the years from 2004 to 2006, these shares experienced a significant increase to a little more than a fifth (children) and almost a quarter (men). Although the equal share of men consumed fruit and vegetable per day in 2006 and 2007, children’s indicator saw a gradual rise to approximately 27%. In 2008, a slight drop was observed in both of the figures.
With regard to women, women’ percentage witnessed a fluctuation with an upward trend during the period. They stood at about 23% at the beginning of the period. From 2001 to 2006 this rate rose dramatically and in 2006 female individuals’ proportion peaked at 35%. Between 2006 and 2008 this rate decreased sharply and reached 30% in 2008.