The charts below show that percentage of their daily intake of various nutrients the average person in the USA consumes in each meal and in snacks. These nutrients may be unhealthy if eaten too much. Summarie the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie charts illustrate the rate of sodium, saturated fat and added

sugar

consumed by Americans in each meal and in snacks.

Overall

, dinner is when most citizens ingest sodium and saturated fat,

while

added

sugar

has a higher rate in snacks. All three groups of nutrients have almost an equivalent percentage of consumption at breakfast.

Moreover

, the difference in rate between sodium and saturated fat during lunch is low as 3%.

Whereas

from added

sugar

, the discrepancy from the other two groups is higher, reaching 10% less ingestion during the same meal. During the ingestion of snacks, the majority of nutrients that are eaten are added carbohydrates and it is far more significant than the levels of fat and salt ingested in the same meal. In conclusion, these nutrients could damage health if consumed in a higher proportion

such

as the ones encountered in the charts below. During snacking it should be ingested less

sugar

while

on dinner is suggested to eat less salty and saturated fat foods.