The chart below shows the percentage of people who ate five portions of fruit and vegetables per day in the UK from 2001 to 2008.

The bar chart illustrates the trend in eating fruit and vegetables of three groups (men, women, children) in the UK over
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eight-year period from 2001 to 2008. The data measured
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the percentages of each group eating five servings per day.
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, all three surveyed groups followed a similar pattern in the proportion of individuals who consumed five servings of those foods daily, with the figure rising steadily before showing
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of the period.
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women always had the highest rate of people meeting the amount of consumption, the children consistently accounted for the lowest percentage. The proportion of women who ate the recommended daily diet started at just over 20% and increased
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for six years and
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peak in 2006 with approximately a third before falling slightly to 30% in the final year. It is easily seen that both
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men and
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remained during the first three years after started at 17% of males and about 13% of
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.
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, their rates increased significantly and
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the highest point in 2007 (at a quarter for kids and under 30% for males in both 2006 and 2007). In the final surveyed year, the percentage of men dipped modestly by 2%, which was the same
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of kids at 24%.

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