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Intake of vitamins B 1 , B 2 , C, A and E estimated on the basis of analysis of weekly diets of 19 Finnish hospitals
Author(s) -
Mattila P.,
Kumpulainen J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of human nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1365-277X
pISSN - 0952-3871
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-277x.1999.00172.x
Subject(s) - medicine , food intake , food consumption , dietary reference intake , zoology , reference daily intake , vitamin , environmental health , food science , nutrient , biology , ecology , agricultural economics , economics
Summary Contents of vitamins B 1 , B 2 , C, A and E were determined and intakes of these vitamins calculated in homogenized weekly diets collected from 19 central hospitals throughout Finland. In addition, the possibility of using the hospital diet data to estimate the level of average daily vitamin intake in Finland was evaluated. This was facilitated by comparing the daily food consumption in hospitals with the average daily food consumption in Finland and assessing the average vitamin intake of Finnish people accordingly. Intakes of vitamins A, B 2 ;and C (1600 RE, 2.9 mg and 148.9 mg day −1 , respectively) exceeded the recommendations for hospital diets. On the other hand, mean intakes of vitamins E and B 1 (8.9 and 1.0 mg day −1 , respectively) were slightly below the recommendations. Comparison of daily food consumption from hospital diets with the average daily food consumption in Finland suggests that average Finnish intakes of vitamins B 1 and E are close to the intake values obtained from the hospital diets studied.