The line chart illustrates how the quantity of food consumed by Chinese people changed over a period of 30 years from 1985 to 2010. Overall, while the grams of fish and meat consumedper person per week showed an increase throughout the whole period, the opposite was true for that of salt. It is also striking that meat and salt share the same identical finishing figures while fish remained the most popular food choice.
Looking first at fish, it stood out as the most favourite food option, starting at 600 grams. In the following 15 years, its figures leveled off between 600 grams and 700 grams before reaching a peak of over 800 grams at the end of the period.
Moving to the amount of salt and meat consumed weekly by a Chinese person, both of which shared the same figures in the final year, yet their trajectories differed greatly. In 1985, the quantity of salt consumed per person was 500 grams, five hundred grams higher than that of meat. However, throughout the years, salt consumption declined significantly while the figure for meat experienced a stark increase. In the final year, both of these two foods shared similar figures, at 200 grams.