Guideline Daily Amounts

[baratron]

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.

	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

Comments

[earwigmc.livejournal.com]

thanks *smile*

[nmg.livejournal.com]

The canonical word on GDAs is available in the best practice guidelines here

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I do get mildy annoyed when labels on food fail to distinguish minimum and maximum amouns, though. You would't be unhealthy if you got quite a lot less alt than that but they wouldn't (presumably?) want you to cut the fibre much. Still a good start...

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...

[rhialto.livejournal.com]

I keep being amazed at how most sources keep using the calorie as unit, even though it has been phased out a couple of decades ago. The international standard unit is the Joule.
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).

[mattp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, useful. Thanks. I knew a couple of the figures, but having them in one places makes for a handy reference.