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Representative examples of the effect of dietary phytate on the EAR and RDA for men and women1
| Men |
Women |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phytate | EAR | RDA2 | EAR | RDA |
| mg/d | ||||
| 0 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 8 |
| 1000 | 18 | 22 | 13 | 16 |
| 2000 | 27 | 32 | 20 | 24 |
| 3000 | 37 | 44 | 27 | 32 |
Data derived from Figure 2.
RDA of IOM are 11 and 8 mg Zn/d for men and women, respectively.
