The pie charts depict the average proportions of three nutrients: sodium, saturated fats, and added sugars in four typical meals such as breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in the USA, which, if consumed in excess, may be unhealthy.
Overall, dinner has the highest percentage of sodium and saturated fat, while the largest portion of snacks is added sugar.
Breakfast and snacks have a similar percentage of sodium, both at 14%. However, the saturated fat figures for the latter and former are slightly different, at 21% and 16% respectively. The added sugar percentage in breakfast remains the same as the saturated fat percentage. Nevertheless, 42% of added sugar is for snacks.
The largest portion of dinner consists of sodium at 43%, and for lunch, it is 29%. Dinner has more saturated fat than lunch, with 37% and 26% respectively. The figures of added sugar in lunch and dinner are approximately the same, with only a four-percentage-point difference, dinner with 23% and lunch 19%.
