The given chart illustrates the proportion of men, women and children consuming 5 portions of fruit each day in the period of 2001 to 2008.

The given chart illustrates the proportion of men, women and children consuming 5 portions of fruit each day in the period of 2001 to 2008. Overall, it is apparently seen that the biggest consumption was by women, while chilren ate much less. The total amount of usage rose steadily over the given period, however declining in the last two years. In terms of females the figure was 20% at the beginning, which gradually rose to nearly a third in 2006, afterwards falling to around 30%. As for men and children, the fruit consumption remained constant for the first three years with a percentage about 16% and just over a tenth respectively. The usage by these categories witnessed a slight fluctuation over the folowing 5 years. Male consumers of food were slighly more than a fifth in 2004. This number grew to roughly 27 per cent in two years, later seing a minor fall by a small fraction of about 2%. A similar progress was observed for children: in 2004 the figure was slightly more than 15%, which faced a gradual growth in the following 3 years, reaching a peak of exactly a quarter and declining for hust 2% in the next year.