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 given charts illustrate the proportion of three different items of nutrition found in the meals regularly consumed. It is

also

noted that the nutrients of the given types could be damaging to health in the case of excessive consumption.

Overall

,

sodium

and saturated fat are found in the largest percentages at dinner and lunch,

while

it is

snacks

that involve the highest proportion of sugar intake. It is

also

worth noting that

breakfast

contains more or less the same percentages of all three given nutrients. Looking at the figures for dinner and lunch

first,

43% of

sodium

is packed in what people have for dinner,

while

it contains 6% less saturated fat. Almost a third of lunch,

on the other hand

, is made up of

sodium

whereas

saturated fat amounts to just over a quarter of it. The figures given for

breakfast

and

snacks

reveal relatively different trends, as they both have considerably smaller percentages of

sodium

and saturated fat, with 14% of

sodium

and 21% of fat for

snacks

and 14% and 16% for

breakfast

.

In contrast

,

snacks

are shown to be highest in sugar, at 42%, which is almost 3 times as big as the figure provided for

breakfast

.