The bar chart provides information about what proportion of citizens in the UK who ate the suggested daily amount of fruit and vegetables in 2002, 2006 and 2010. Overall, adults especially women, showed bigger figures throughout the period. On the other hand, the proportion of children was relatively smaller.
Man and women showed much bigger figures, in 2002, 22 % fruits and vegetables were eaten by man, relatively more than those consumed by women, at 25 %. This disparity didn’t pronounce more in 2006, as the figure for male saw a rise to a staggering 28% and that for female increased to 32%. In the final year, while the proportion of fruit and vegetable consumed by both men and women witnessed a slight drop to 24% and 27% respectively.
Turning to the remaining category, children. In 2002, they ate 11% fruit and vegetables, a figure that then rise minimally to 14 % in 2006. However, the percentage of fruits and vegetables consumed by children stood at just 14 % in the last year.