NUTR 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dietary Reference Intake, Multivitamin, Health Canada
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Dietary reference intake (dri: on going and collaborative effort, health canada and the food and nutrition board of the institute of medicine (us, recommended intake levels for vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients, current recommendations issued from 1997-2005. Recommended amount of nutrient based on meeting the needs of nearly all individuals in a particular age and gender group. Eating varied diet/ using balanced multivitamin is ok. Problem: use of many fortified food or excessive doses of individual vitamins/minerals. Generic standard used on food labels (ages 4 through adulthood) Human studies: case control studies, double-blind studies. Nearly all packaged foods and processed meat products. Fresh fruits, vegetable, raw single ingredient meal, poultry, fish are voluntary. % daily value for protein (for foods intended for 4 yrs or older) Procedure to determine protein quality is expensive. Staple/ paste a food label on a sheet of paper.
