The three pie charts give information about the proportion of sodium, saturated fat, and added sugar in the typical meals of UK adults. Excessive consumption of any of these nutrients is considered to negatively affect one’s health.
As initial overview, a typical breakfast is the lightest meal of the day, which contains between 13 and 16 per cent of each nutrient. Not only is this point clear, but also in lunch the percentage of sodium, saturated fat and added sugar do not have high difference all of them around 20-30%.
Out of all the meals, dinner contains the largest proportions of sodium and saturated fat (42 and 39 per cent of daily intake, respectively). In contrast, snacks have the highest proportion of added sugar with 45 %, however, have tiny ratio of the other nutrients as around 15 % and 19%.
Overall, the first two meals of the day eaten by adults in the UK are relatively balanced and healthy, whereas dinner contains the most sodium and saturated fat. Most of the added sugar is in snack foods.