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

pie

charts illustrate the typical meal in the USA with percentages of three types of nutrients including sodium, saturated fat, and added sugar whose consumption in large quantities may be harmful to health.

Overall

, the charts reveal that the most significant sector in the two charts is related to

dinner

and the amount of added sugar in

snacks

is by far more than other additives.

While

breakfast

is the lowest typical meal nutrients are compared with others. Based on the first

pie

chart, the

dinner

sector compromised an average of 43%, which is the highest rate of all.

Snacks

and

breakfast

represented the same amount of sodium consumption 14%,

while

lunch showed an average number is 29%. In the second

pie

chart,

dinner

again leads but with the added saturated fat with an indicator of 37%.

This

time

snacks

and

breakfast

have different rates 21% and 16%, respectively

while

breakfast

is again the lowest meal for the addition of saturated fat.

Lastly

, in the third

pie

chart,

snacks

overtook

dinner

by adding sugar to food with 42%

while

dinner

was made up 23%.

Dinner

and

breakfast

have almost the same percentage difference of 3% in favour of

dinner

.