Your Answer ▼ The pie charts provided illustrate percentage breakdowns of potentially harmful nutrients, if eaten too much, in typical meals consumed in the USA. The nutrients include sodium, saturated fats and added sugar.
All in all, what stands out from these charts are that more sodium and saturated fat are found in dinner meals ,while it is true for added sugar in snacks. It also seems that breakfast contains the lowest amounts of sodium, saturated fats and added sugar.
Turning to the detail, as far as the first chart for sodium is concerned, dinner meals contain the highest average percentages of sodium -43%. Trough eating lunch, 29% sodium is consumed. The remaining figure of sodium in the chart is evenly distributed by breakfast and snacks. Similarly, the most saturated fat, 37% is also consumed by eating dinner and lunch meals contribute to a consumption of approximately one in four saturated fat, followed by just over one fifth of snacks and breakfast with 16%.
As regards to added sugar, the largest amount,42% is consumed in snacks and that is twofold and threefold of what they account for saturated fat and sodium respectively. It is followed by that of dinner meals with rate of 23%, whease lunch includes 19% and breakfast contains 16%.
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