The bar chart compares the percentages of men, women and children in the UK who consumed the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Overall, women consistently recorded the highest proportions of people meeting the recommended intake, while children had by far the lowest figures throughout the period. All three groups experienced an upward trend between 2002 and 2006, before declining slightly in 2010.
In 2002, one quarter of women consumed the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables, compared with 22% of men. Both figures rose noticeably over the following four years, reaching peaks of 32% and 28% respectively in 2006. By 2010, however, the proportions had fallen modestly to 27% for women and 24% for men, although both remained above their initial levels.
Children were considerably less likely to meet the recommended intake than adults in every year shown. Only 11% did so in 2002, making this the lowest figure on the chart. The proportion then increased by five percentage points to 16% in 2006 before slipping slightly to 14% in 2010. Despite this decline, the final figure was still three percentage points higher than at the beginning of the period.