The bar chart illustrates the proportion of people in the UK who ate healthy diet with prescribed amount of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis between 2002 and 2010.
Overall, grown-ups, especially men consistently paid more attention to consuming right amount of fruit and vegetables, as opposed to their opposite gender and children. Additionally, there was a universal upward trend across all groups, the increase was more pronounced among youngsters.
Focusing first on the daily nutrition of individuals, women topped the list with 25%. Closely following behind was the figure for men, exactly double that of children with respective figures of 22% and 11% in 2002. Over the next four years, this disparity narrowed down, as percentage of men slightly rose to 26, as opposed to children’s proportion soared to 18%. Moreover, women’s figure witnessed a significant growth to 32%, still leading the pack.
In 2010, however, proportion of men and children who consumed sufficient quantity of fruits and vegetables daily experienced marginal 2% decline to 24% and 16% respectively. Lastly, even though women’s sector dropped to 26%, it maintained its dominance at the end of the period.