The chart given depicts the amount of spreads taken by a person per day between 1981 and 2007 in a country. Overall, the consumption of butter and margarine was decreased while low fat & reduced spreads’ consumption was increased in the given period.
With regard to the butter consumption, after short increase from 1981 to 1986, it maintained steady downward trend until the figure reaches 50 grams per day which is almost the one-third of .1981’s. Margarine shows the similar trend with butter. After some fluctuations between 1981 and 1996, the daily consumption of margarine per person which was almost 100 grams in 1981 dropped to 40 grams in 2007.
Meanwhile, low fat & reduced spreads which was introduced to the market since 1996 became the major alternative of butter and margarine. It reached its peak on 2001 with 80 grams of daily consumption per person. Though the figure was decreased a bit from 2001 and 2007, it still remains as the most favored spread among three spreads given in 2007.