The chart below shows the percentage of the population in the UK who consumed the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables in 2002, 2006 and 2010.

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the percentage of people in the United Kingdom eating fruit and vegetables at the recommended level in the

year

2002, 2006 and 2010, divided into 3 categories.

Overall

, the highest consumption is contributed by

UK

women in the

year

2006.

Conversely

, children in the

UK

contributed to the lowest percentage in 2002.

To begin

with, the consumption of

UK

females stood at 25% in the

year

2002 and

initially

peaked at 32% four years later, before reducing slightly to 27% in the

last

period.

Similarly

, men in the

UK

consumed fruit and vegetables at 22% in the first

year

.

Following

this

, it experienced a minimal decline at 24% in 2010, after hitting a high of 28% in the previous four years. Moving to the remaining categories, having consumed the least fruit and vegetables, children led in

overall

consumption across the periods. It started at 11% in 2002

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and

then

reached a peak of 16% in the

year

2006. In the following four years, the figure exhibited a negligible drop at 14% in 2010.