The bar chart compares the share of Britain’s population who consumed five or more portions of fruits and vegetables in their daily meals. The data is categorised according to gender and age.

The chart displays a comparison between British people's consumption of five or more fruit and

vegetables

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portions in their daily meals.

Overall

,

women

seem to have the greatest amount of consumption throughout the period.

While

men

and

children

are having an increase. At the beginning of the period, in 2001

women

were leading by having a consumption rate of 23 per

cent

,

whereas

men

were almost 5 per

cent

ander them and the

children

accumulated 13 per

cent

. Over the next 2 years, the trend did not seem to change with both

men

and

children

being stable for the third

year

in a row, yet

women

increased by almost 2 per

cent

in the following

year

and 3 per

cent

the

year

after. Since 2004 the numbers started to increase for both

children

and

men

after being stable.

Whereas

in 2006, both

women

and

men

reached their highest peaks with 35 and almost 28 per

cent

respectively.

However

, the

children

's peak was in the

year

after with over 27 per

cent

. The numbers fell after the peaks seen in 2008.