The bar chart below shows the percentage of people who ate five protains of fruits and vegatables per day in the UK from 2001 and 2008

The bar chart illustrates the proportion of British

men

,

women

, and children who consumed five parts of fruits and

vegetables

in a day between 2001 and 2008, an 8-year

period

of time.

Overall

, the

percentage

of

men

consuming fruit and

vegetables

saw an increase

while

women

and children witnessed a decrease over the 8-year

period

. Though there was a decrease,

women

had the highest

percentage

who ate fruit and

vegetables

in the given

period

of time. From 2001 to 2003, the rate remained steady in the consumption of fruits and

vegetables

in terms of

men

from less than 20%.

Then

, the

percentage

increased to more than 20% in 2004 and 27% in 2006.

However

,

men

witness a decline of 1% to around 26%

at the end

of the

period

. Regarding

Women

, there was an upward trend from 2001 to 2006. The proportion of eating fruit and

vegetables

by

women

was just above 20% in 2001 to around 35% in 2006

while

the

percentage

of female consumers declined consistently for the next 2 years to 30%. In terms of children, they saw an upward trend throughout the

period

though, from the beginning of the

period

to 2003, the

percentage

was stable to slightly above 10%.

On the contrary

, there was a decline from approximately 26% in 2007 to around 24% in 2008.