The given pie charts provide information about the average proportions in four typical meals of three different kinds of nutrients, with the overconsumption of which can have pernicious effects on health, while the bar chart illustrates the amount of fat consumed in the USA.
Overall, the proportions of Sodium and Added Sugar varied more significantly across meals, while Saturated Fat exhibited a relatively smaller gap among the four categories. Meanwhile, the amount of fat consumed in the USA increased gradually between 2010 and 2015, before rising at a faster pace during the remaining years.
According to the pie charts, snacks were the time that people consumed food with sodium the most, at about 43%, which was two times higher than that of food with excessive sugar. Dinner was the second meal that people chose to consume food containing sodium, at 29%, compared to that of food with extra sugar with 10% lower. However, the percentage of sodium being consumed in breakfast and lunch was relatively the same, at only 14% each, which contrasted to the figure for excessive sugar, with lunchtime consumed the most, at 42%, while breakfast the least, at only 16%. In terms of saturated fat, people ate food with this nutrients equally among all meals, with the highest figure recorded in snacks, at 37%, followed by that of dinner and lunchtime, at 26% and 21% respectively, and the lowest figure was documented in breakfast, accounting for 16%.
Regarding the bar chart, the amount of fat consumed by people in the USA was roughly 11.5 kilograms. In the next 4 years, the figure increased gradually, reaching approximately 12 kilograms in 2014, before standing at over 12.5 kilograms by the year 2015. In the latter half of the period, the statistic continued to increase marginally, standing at nearly 13 kilograms in 2016, before experiencing an upward trend over the next three years, and eventually reached the highest point at about 16 kilograms by the end of the aforementioned period.