The bar chart illustrates the percentage of men, women and children using five categories of fruit and vegetation each day over a seven-year between 2001 and 2008.
Overall, the figure for women has the highest percentage of eating fruit and vegetables, while children accounted the lowest proportion of this category. Furthermore, there were gradual upward trend in the percentage of people using these food items in the period given.
As shown, the percentage of women who ate fruit and vegetables started a just over 20% in the first year of 20th century. After which this figure experienced a slight increase over following five years, reaching a peak at approximately 35% in 2006. While, these figures for eating fruit and vegetable by men and children remained relatively stable in the first three years, at around 17% and 12% respectively. From this point, the percentage of men grew gradually to peak at a just over quarter in 2006.
In comparison, according to the figure for women accounting these food items, the proportion decrease slowly to 30% in the two final years. The figure for eating fruit and vegetable by men followed the same path as the women’s trend and reaching nearly quarter in 2008. The figure for children held the lowest percentage in the chart; although, it witnessed a gradual growth over the period given, finishing around 24% in the final year.