table analysis - food consumption
The given table illustrates the number of vegetables, meat, wheat, bean, and cheese consumed weekly in grams per capita in a European country in three different periods of time.
It is clear that while the consumption of meat declined over the period from 1992 to 2012, the opposite was true for other groups of food. In addition, vegetables accounted for the largest portion of people's weekly diet in all three years.
In 1992, vegetables made up for 2140 grams in the total amount of food consumed by a person per week, which was almost double that figure for meat and approximately 21 times as much as that figure for cheese, at 1148 grams and 113 grams respectively. Those figures for wheat, bean, and cheese were 837 grams, 532 grams respectively.
In the next few years, the amount of meat consumed weekly by a person after witnessed a significant rise of 63 grams in 2002, fall dramatically to only 1132 grams in 2012. By contrast, the figures for wheat, bean, and cheese increase marginally to 977 grams, 590 grams, and 125 grams respectively. Similarly, that figure for vegetables climbed up to 2220 grams, remained the highest among these five groups of food.
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