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

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,

women

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

While

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men

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and

children

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

women

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were leading by having a consumption rate of 23 per

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,

whereas

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men

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were almost 5 per

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ander them and the

children

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accumulated 13 per

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

men

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and

children

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being stable for the third

year

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in a row, yet

women

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increased by almost 2 per

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in the following

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and 3 per

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the

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after. Since 2004 the numbers started to increase for both

children

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and

men

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after being stable.

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in 2006, both

women

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and

men

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reached their highest peaks with 35 and almost 28 per

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respectively.

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, the

children

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's peak was in the

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after with over 27 per

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. The numbers fell after the peaks seen in 2008.