The pie charts provide information about three nutrients (sodium, saturated fat, and added sugar), and their average percentages in the meal they are consumed in, based on four typical meals.
Overall, lunch and dinner contains the largest amount of sodium and saturated fat. However, dinner takes a bigger space in both sodium and saturated fat compared to lunch. Meanwhile, breakfast and snacks have the smallest proportion of sodium and saturated fat.
In both sodium and saturated fat, dinner accounted for the largest proportion, accounting for 43% of sodium and accounting for 37% on saturated fat. On the other hand, lunch takes the second biggest portion in both sodium and saturated fat, with accounting for 29% of sodium and accounting 26% on saturated fat. Compared to dinner, lunch has a small difference between these two nutrients, with 3%.
Breakfast and snacks have the smallest proportion in sodium, both accounted for 14%. Based on saturated fat, breakfast accounts for 16% and snacks accounts for 21%, which makes them smallest proportions in saturated fat. However, snacks take the largest proportion of added sugar, with accounting for 42%, while breakfast staying at 16%.
