The bar chart illustrates the proportion of UK’s individuals eating five parts of fruits & vegetables varied between 2001 and 2008, broken down by three main categories.
Overall, people in the UK were more likely to eat healthy products throughout the given timeframe. Notably, the consumption of females outpaced that of their male counterparts and children over the surveyed period.
Looking first at the first four consecutive years, the proportion of women consuming vegetation showed wide disparities with that of youngsters and men. In terms of women, their eating rate commenced at 22% in 2001, which slightly grew 2% year to year to approximately 28% in the last year under review. These pronounced changes propelled women into the largest consumers of fruits & vegetables in the four-year period. Conversely, no more than 20% of men in the UK ate agricultural crops five times a day, while the percentage of children eating them hovered around 15% between 2001 and 2004.
Examining the years 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, all patterns showed upward trajectories. The figure for adolescents gradually surged to over 25% in 2007, after that it fell back to 23% in the following year. Similarly, women peaked at 35%, followed by a fall of 5% in 2008. Additionally, men grew to 23% in 2005 before stabilizing at 27% from 2006 to 2008, marking unchanged second rank.