Monday 29 July 2019

Task 1 Cambridge 14 - Average percentage of nutrients in Typical Meals in the USA

You should spend about 20 minute on this task.

The charts below show the average percentages in typical meals of three types of nutrients, all of which may be unhealthy if eaten too much.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features , and make comparisons where relevant.







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The pie charts illustrate the average percentage amount of sodium, saturated fat and added sugar in typical meals in America, which are not good for the health if ingested excessively.

Overall, it can be seen that dinner and snacks are the least healthy meals based on recorded amounts of sodium and saturated fat, while breakfast is healthiest.

Firstly, the consumption of sodium in dinner recorded the highest representing 43%, then followed by lunch at 29%. Snacks and breakfast recorded the lowest under sodium accounting for just 14% in both.

Moreover, the highest percentage under saturated fat was dinner with 37%, lunch with 26% and then followed by snacks with 21%.The lowest percentage in the category is breakfast representing just 16%.

Additionally, under added sugar the percentages changed with snacks leading with 42%, and then followed by 23% for dinner, while breakfast and lunch recorded the lowest with 16% and 19% respectively.

Band 7

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