The graphs give information about the percentages of expenditure on food among people in the United States by food type in three different years: 2000, 2010, and 2020.
Overall, meat and fish, fruits and vegetables, and snacks and sodas accounted for a major portion of people’s spending on food. It is also clear that dairy products, and bread, cereal, and rice were a smaller percentage of people’s food budget in the US over the three years analysed.
Snacks and soda were the main source of spending, with figures growing from 31% in 2000 to 36% in 2020. Secondly, meat and fish, represented nearly a quarter of the spending over the three years, with numbers decreasing from 26% in 2000 to 22% in 2020. Fruits and vegetables represented around a fifth of the total spending on food in the US across 2000, 2010 and 2020. Combined these three food categories accounted to 75% of the total spending, approximately.
The other two categories, bread, cereal and rice, and dairy products, were the ones where people had least spent on, together they add up to nearly 25% of the total, and their figures barely changed over the years.