File talk:US Sweetener Consumption, 1966-2012.svg

Total sugar:

It is not evident from the labelling that the total is the total of sweeteners other than refined sugar. More explicit labelling would improve the the readability of the graph.

Surely the units are wrong
Is this graph suggesting that the average American consumes about 0.2 lbs of sugars per year? The current labels on the graph seem to suggest this. Perhaps it's supposed to be per day? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.128.157.74 (talk) 04:17, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

The units are wrong if you follow the link to the original data. For example, in 2013 the consumption per capita per year was 67.9 pounds of refined sugar, 43.7 pounds of HFCS, etc. If someone edits the chart, I would suggest renaming "total" to "total corn". It would also be nice to see an actual "total" that includes all the sweetener per capita. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.135.186.216 (talk) 18:08, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Issues
Multiple issues with this chart. Most importantly, units from the original data, which are already per-capita, have been erroneously divided by population. Labels such as "Total" are also unclear. I'm going to remove this from where it's used and either replace it with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usda_sweeteners.svg or create a new one, and propose deleting this. — ʀoyoтϵ 03:59, 1 June 2015 (UTC)