Wei W, Jiang W, Huang J, et al. - Since the link between intake time of different foods and cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all‐cause mortalities still remains unknown to a large extent, thus, researchers herein investigated the connection of meal and snack patterns across a day with cancer, cardiovascular disease, and all‐cause mortality. From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a noninstitutionalized household population of the US 21,503 participants was included in this study. Using 24‐hour dietary recall, meal patterns and snack patterns throughout a whole day were recorded. Lower mortality risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and all‐cause were observed in relation to fruit‐snack after breakfast, fruit‐lunch, vegetable‐dinner, and dairy‐snack after dinner, whereas greater CVD and all‐cause mortalities were observed in relation to Western‐lunch and starchy‐snack following main meals.