The chart below shows 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 comparison when relevant.
The pie charts give information on the proportion of
sodium
, saturated fats
and added sugars in breakfast, lunch, dinner
and snacks
in the USA.
Overall
, the largest amount
of sodium
and saturated fats
is used in dinner
. However
, the amount
of sugar which is added to snacks
is the highest.
Among typical meals, the amount
of sodium
, saturated fats
and added sugars in breakfast is the lowest ( 14%, 16% and 16% respectively). At dinner
, 43% of sodium
and 37% of saturated fats
are consumed. The proportion of these two nutrients in it is the greatest of the four types of meals. But, the content of sugar is the lowest( 23%) in dinner
.
In contrast
, people in the USA utilize the biggest amount
of sugar(42%) in snacks
. Nevertheless
, they use only 14% of sodium
and 21% of saturated fats
in snacks
. In terms of lunch, there is no significant difference in the proportion of these three nutrients ( 29% of sodium
, 26 % of saturated fats
and 19% of added sugars).Submitted by aungmyatthu on
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Vocabulary: Replace the words sodium, fats, dinner, snacks, amount with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 4 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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