The chart presents information on the recommended amount of fruit and vegetable intake a person should eat in a day. The data is done in UK in the year 2006 and categorize by age group and gender.
Overall, it can be seen that female has the highest proportion when it comes to fruit and vegetable consumption compared to men. Also, ages 55-64 has the highest percentage in all age group in both genders.
In detail, the highest rate of percentage in fruit and vegetable consumption is from 55-64 years old women at nearly 35%, followed by ages from 65-74 at approximately 30%. However, there is significant drop of around 10% of healthy food intake at the age of 75. It is noticeable that younger individuals aging from 19-24 consume less healthy food at around 15%, and see the more than 10% changes when they reach 45-54 years old.
Meanwhile, among men, the highest proportion of fruit and vegetable consumer are ages between 55-54 same with women. Men and women have a quite similarity when it comes to consumption of healthy food basing on age group. However, female consumer is almost 5% higher comparing to male from the age group of 65-74, while at the age of 75 both genders have the same figure.