The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

The proportions of three different nutrients in breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks which negatively affect health when overconsuming are compared in three charts. It is clear from the charts that

while

sodium and saturated fat are eaten mostly

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dinner, there is too

much added

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sugar

consumed in snacks.

Additionally

, American residents eat the least nutrients in their breakfasts. In terms of dinner, the percentages of sodium and saturated fat consumed are highest, at 43% and 37% respectively,

while

the figure for added

sugar

is significantly lower, at 23%. Meanwhile, the proportion of added

sugar

in snacks is higher than

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meals, at 42%, compared to only 14% and 21% of sodium and saturated fat eaten by the US people in

this

meal. In terms of breakfast, the rates of all three nutrients consumed are in the same figure, at around 16%, and become the healthiest meals of inhabitants in the USA in a day. Turning to lunch, the consumption of added

sugar

makes up the smallest proportion, at 19% of the total consumption

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a lunch.