Guideline Daily Amounts
Sep. 20th, 2007 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I finally managed to find the UK Guideline Daily Amounts for different nutrients (on a packet of Sainsbury's "Be Good To Yourself" oven chips, of all places!). The official table agrees very nicely with the one that
johnckirk managed to put together from 3 different sources. Seeing that it's such a pain in the bum to get hold of, I thought I'd type it out in case anyone else was looking for it.
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Women | Men | Children 5-10 years | |
---|---|---|---|
Energy (kcal) | 2000 | 2500 | 1800 |
Protein (g) | 45 | 55 | 24 |
Carbohydrate (g) of which simple (g) | 230 90 | 300 120 | 220 85 |
Fat (g) of which saturated (g) | 70 20 | 95 30 | 70 20 |
Fibre (g) | 24 | 24 | 15 |
Salt (g) of which sodium (g) | 6 2.4 | 6 2.4 | 4 1.4 |
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 06:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 09:51 pm (UTC)Also, looking at some of the other information on the page, I have a horrible feeling that it might be these people who are responsible for the bloody awful pie charts of doom that Sainsbury's now print on their food packets, that have almost driven me entirely to shopping at Waitrose.
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-21 08:58 am (UTC)Relevant quote from the best practice guidelines issued by IGD:
The COMA report is Department of Health. Report on Health and Social Subjects No 41. Dietary Reference Values
for Food Energy and Nutrients for the United Kingdom. London: HMSO 1991., but I've not been able to find a source for this online.
So, DoH's remit is in publishing DRVs, whereas IGD's remit is the communication of these (as GDAs) to consumers. Quango-tastic.
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 07:17 pm (UTC)Personally I am still trying to find out what is meant by a 'portion' or carbohydrates. Apparently a slice of bread counts as one, so clearly they're smaller than I thought...
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 09:45 pm (UTC)That's just what I was thinking!
I don't think anyone eating the average western diet needs to give the slightest thought to any concern about getting too little, perhaps unless they're running a marathon in a heatwave...
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 09:55 pm (UTC)I know what you mean, though - some of those guidelines are recommended maxima while others are recommended minima. We, as reasonably well-educated people, can probably work out for ourselves which are which. But someone who knew very little about nutrition would have no clue. It's probably worth taking up that point with whoever's "in charge" of food labelling - perhaps those IGD people that
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 09:53 pm (UTC)I'm even more amazed at how this can be the case in countries that do not normally degrees Celcius/Kelvin and grams as basic units (which is how the calorie is defined: the amount of heat (energy) needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celcius (or 1 Kelvin)).
Even the more-or-less official dutch nutrition centre (http://www.voedingscentrum.nl/) keeps using calories as the first unit, and Joules only as second (in many places).
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 10:05 pm (UTC)The left-hand column reads, respectively
Bread
Potatoes (or rice, pasta, pods)
Vegetables
Fruit
Dairy
Meat(products), fish, chicken, egg, or meat replacements
Margarine or frying products (i.e. fat)
Drinks
no subject
Date: 2007-09-21 07:55 am (UTC)