Table 1.
Daily nutritional intake recommendations according to the World Health Organization and Department of Health (DOH), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, and adjusted intake recommendations per meal.
| Threshold/ Source |
Population | Energy | Total Fat | Sodium | Total Sugar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daily/WHO and DOH | Adult | 2100 kcal/person/day [34] | Not exceeding 30% of total energy intake fat intake (approximately 78 g) [35] | 2 g sodium/person/day [36] | 6 teaspoons/person/day (approximately 25 g) [37] |
| Per meal/Various sources | 600 kcal [38] | 600 mg [39] | 8 g 1 | 25 g 2 [35,37,38,40] |
1 Estimated by research team as a proportion of WHO standard of daily intake. This entailed dividing the daily recommended intake by three (based on the assumption that one portion is equivalent to one meal and there are three meals in a day). 2 Estimated by research team as a proportion of WHO standard of daily intake. This entailed dividing the daily recommended intake by three (based on the assumption that one portion is equivalent to one meal and there are three meals in a day).