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. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts provide information on the average proportions of common foods (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks) with
sodium
, saturated fat, and added sugar whose excessive consumption is considered to be unhealthy.
Overall
, snacks have the largest percentages of added sugar as compared to the other kinds of meals.
However
, dinner and lunch are seen to account for approximately the same amounts of all the nutrients. In terms of dinner,
sodium
has the largest percentage of 43 followed by saturated fat and added sweets with 37% and 23% respectively. The same trend can be observed for lunch with the highest being 29% followed by 26% and
then
19%. Moving on to breakfast, saturated fat and added sugar had equal figures of 16% with 2% lower
sodium
. It is evident that snacks had the most in all three categories with 42% followed
secondly
by saturated fats with 21% and
sodium
last
at 14%
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Basic structure: Change the fifth paragraph.
Vocabulary: Replace the words sodium with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the fifth paragraph.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • average percentages
  • nutrients
  • unhealthy
  • meal
  • typical meals
  • categories
  • high percentage
  • distribution
  • patterns
  • trends
  • nutrient-dense
  • data
  • comparison
  • summarize
  • reporting main features
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