The charts below show the average percentage in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

The three pie charts give information about the average percentages of

sodium

, saturated fats and added sugars in four typical meals, namely

breakfast

, lunch, dinner and

snacks

which may be unhealthy if eaten too much, consumed in the USA.

Overall

,

it is clear that

dinner had the highest percentage of consumption of

sodium

and saturated fat,

while

the lowest percentage of all types of nutrients was allocated to

breakfast

.

In addition

,

snacks

had the biggest share of added sugar. The biggest share of

sodium

and saturated fat was allocated to dinner with 43% and 37% respectively. There is no difference between the figure for

snacks

and

breakfast

in

sodium

consumption, as the former was responsible for 14%. It is noteworthy that the percentage of saturated fat and added sugar was the same with 16% in the

breakfast

meal. The intake of added sugar in

snacks

ranked first with 42%, and there was little difference between the figure for saturated fat in

snacks

and lunch with a narrow margin of 5%,

while

the figure for the latter was a higher 26%.

Additionally

, lunch had the second rank in the consumption of

sodium

with one-third of the total share.