The charts below illustrate consumption of three varieties of nutrients which may pose a risk to the health of USA citizens if taken excesively. The rate is expressed in percentages.
Overall, it is clear that sodium is the most preferred component across all the meals, while breakfast has the lowest amount of each type of nutrient. Snacks contain a large proportion of added sugar as compared to the other foods. During luchtime, sodium is eaten more than the rest of the ingredients.
To commence, sodium accounts for the largest portion during dinner while added sugar has the least percentage with 43% and 23% respectively. However, this trend is reversed at snack time because sugar is consumed more at 42% unlike salt which is at 23%. In the morning all the three elements are consumed moderately with 14% salt and 16% for both fat and sugar.
At lunch-time sodium is the commonly used constituent with 29% followed closely by saturated fat at 26% as added sugar make up the rest portion with 19% value.
