The bar chart shows the percentage of people who ate five portions of fruits and vegetables per day in the UK from 2001 and 2008.

Contained in the bar chart is data pertaining to the proportion of people consuming different portions of vegetables and fruits in a day throughout the UK during an eight-year period. The data is measured in per cent. Generally speaking, all of the categories experienced upward trends over the period, the consumption of women obtained the highest position in the time frame.

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, the percentage of children was the most significant increase

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of the timescale. Looking at the female figures, it is obvious that it rose gradually from over 20% to nearly 31% in 2005.

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2006, the proportion of women eating fruits and vegetables reached its peak at approximately 35% and

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declined to under 30%. As far as the women’s position is concerned, the figures kept the highest position until the end of the period. Moving on to the male and the children statistics, there was a similarity between the men and the young ones, which remained the same in the first three years, with nearly 17% and over 11% respectively between 2001 and 2003. The male proportion fluctuated between 20% and 25% in the following years,

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, the young data rose to nearly the same as the men one in 2008.