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Estimated Average Requirement
-intake meets requirements of half the healthy individuals in a group (sex/age) |
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Recommended Dietary Allowance
*best judgement of a group of experts on the daily amounts that are sufficient & safe for a healthy individual
-EAR + 2 standard deviations |
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Tolerable Upper intake Level
-highest level of daily intake that is likely to pose no rosks of adverse health effects to almost all individuals
*NO toxicity risk when below UL |
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Adequate Intake
-intake of a healthy reference population where data are insufficient to determine EAR, and thus RDA |
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Dietary Reference Intake
-includes EAR, RDA, and UL |
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US Recommended Daily Allowance
-highest RDA based on 1968 recommendations
*on food packaging products |
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| nutrients are added solely to replace losses during food processing (wheat, rice) |
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| extra nutrients are added to the food (iodized salt) |
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Nutrients separate: 50-150% RDA
No difference between "natural" & "synthetic" |
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can be converted into the active vitamin
*Carotene --> Vitamin A (in carrots) |
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vitamin antagonist
-sulphonamides, methotrexate (anti-folates) |
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needed in amonts of more than 100 mg/d
(Ca, Mg, Na, K, Cl, P) |
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needed in amounts greater than 1 mg/d
(Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn) |
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| Ultratrace Element Minerals |
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needed in amounts of less than 1 mg/d
(As, B, F, I, Se, Cr, Co, Mo, Si, V, Ni, Sn) |
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