Topic 2B: Nutritional Regulations

Question 0

Read table on slide 7

Answer 0

Better do it or ill hurt you…

Question 1

What do these stand for and what do they mean?
EAR
RDI
AI
UL

Answer 1

EAR: Estimated Average requirement
RDI: Recommended Dietary Intake–> if the average daily dietary intake level sufficient to meet the nutrient requirements of nearly all healthy individuals in a life stage/gender group.
AI: Adequate Intake–> used when an EAR can’t be determined because of insufficient data. The AI can be used as a goal for individual intake but is based on experiments
UL: upper level of intake –> highest level of continuing daily nutrient intake likely to pose no adverse health effects in almost all individuals

Question 2

What are the uses of RDIs?

Answer 2

Assessing adequacy of diets
Menu planning 
Planning therapeutic diets 
Planning food supplies 
Nutrition labelling

Question 3

Food groups and their main nutrients.
What are the nutrients found in: 
Vegetables, legumes
Fruits 
Grain/cereal, food, bread, rice, pasta, noodles
Meat, fish, poultry, egg, nuts legumes
Milk, yogurt etc

Answer 3

What are the nutrients found in:
Vegetables, legumes: caritonoids, vit C, folate, dietary fibre
Fruits: vit C, dietary fibre and other vitamins
Grain/cereal, food, bread, rice, pasta, noodles: carbs, protein, iron, dietary fibre, thiamine, folate, iodine
Meat, fish, poultry, egg, nuts legumes: protein, iron, zinc, vit B12, long chain omega 3 FA
Milk, yogurt etc: calcium, protein, riboflavin, vitamin B12