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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The pie charts illustrate the average distribution of three types of nutrients in various meals, namely
sodium
, saturated fat, and added sugar
, all of them indicated to affect health if over-consumed.
Overall
, it is clear that
dinner contains the highest proportions of sodium
and saturated fat, while
snacks
have the largest proportion of added sugar
. On the other hand
, breakfast
depicts the least share of these nutrients.
To begin
with, dinner stands out with 43% sodium
and 37% saturated fat, significantly more than lunch, which is only 29% sodium
and 26% saturated fat. Subsequently
, snacks
and breakfast
had the lowest proportions of 14% sodium
. Comparatively, snacks
had 21% saturated fat, whereas
breakfast
had the smallest percentage of 16%.
Conversely
, added sugar
had the largest proportion, that is
, 42% in snacks
. If people consumed snacks
at dinner, it had 23% added sugar
, followed by 19% at lunch and the lowest percentage at 16% at breakfast
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Vocabulary: Replace the words sodium, sugar, snacks, breakfast with synonyms.
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