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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Diet Assoc. 2003 May;103(5):594–601. doi: 10.1053/jada.2003.50112

Table 1.

Three-day average macronutrient and iron contents of provided food items (beef and texturized vegetable protein products) for a 75 kg reference malea

Energy
(kcal)		 Protein
(g)		 Carbohydrate
(g)		 Fat
(g)		 Iron
(mg)
Beef group 609 53.3 0 46.3 5.0
Vegetarian group 549 53.3 32.9 20.2 9.0
a

All products were provided in amounts adjusted to yield 0.6 g protein·kg−1·d−1.