Table 1.
Food groups | Calorie/g* |
---|---|
Eggs (n 9)† | 1·42 |
Dairy products (n 247) | 2·40 |
Meats (n 284) | 2·33 |
Fishes (n 63) | 1·25 |
Seafood (n 40) | 0·88 |
Fruits (n 69) | 0·54 |
Vegetables (n 204) | 0·35 |
Cereals (n 78) | 3·59 |
Tubers (n 35) | 1·29 |
Legumes (n 25) | 1·06 |
Nuts and seeds (n 49) | 6·03 |
Oils and fat (n 26) | 8·98 |
Sugar (n 1) | 4·00 |
Median calorie contents within each food group were based on all ready-to-eat foods (therefore including IPFs) as retrieved from the Ciqual database on 17 August 2020(43).
Number of ready-to-eat foods considered for the calculation of the median calorie content.