The chart illustrates consumption of three kinds of fast food by Australian teenagers from 1975 to 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph gives information about how much fast food was eaten by Australian teenagers, over a 25-year period between 1975 and 2000.

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, what stands out from the chart is that there were upward trends in the consumption of pizza and hamburgers

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however

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, the use of fish and chips decreased markedly over the given period. Looking at the details,

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, the intake of pizza was 2% in 1975, after which the figure increased noticeably to around 82% in 1995. After that,

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trend remained stable until 2000. If we look at the amount of consumption of hamburgers experienced a sharp rise from around 10% to 83% between 1975 and 1985, which was followed by a gradual growth to 100% in 2000.

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, there was a moderate decline in the use of fish and chips from 100% to 82% in 1980,

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a year, it saw a slight increase to 93%.

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, the figure fell dramatically to 40% in the final year.