The three pie charts give information about how sodium, saturated fats, and added sugars are allocated in daily meals in the USA.
Overall, there are four typical types of meals: breakfast, dinner, lunch, and snacks. It is noticeable that breakfast consumes the least amount of the three types of nutrients, while dinner accounted for the largest proportion of sodium and saturated fat.
To begin with, 16% of saturated fat and added sugar are allocated to dinner. Regarding saturated fat, 21% of this nutrient is eaten in snacks, closely followed by lunch, at 26%, and 37% in dinner. In contrast, snacks are the meals consuming the largest percentage of added sugar (42%). Respectively, there are 19% and 23% of this nutrient being consumed during lunch and dinner.
On the other hand, 14% of sodium is consumed in breakfast and snacks, followed by 29% in lunch, and nearly half (43%) is eaten in dinner.
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