. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 21.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Circumpolar Health. 2009 Feb;68(1):53–74. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v68i1.18294

Table VI.

Mean percent (%) contribution^a,^b of one serving (100g ww) of spotted seal (n=5) and sheefish (n=8) tissue to the Daily Reference Intake (DRI)^c for select essential elements.

		Element:	Ca	Cu	Fe	Mg	Mn	Mo	Se	Zn
		DRI:	1000 mg/day	900 µg/day	8 mg/day	420 mg/day	1.8 mg/day	45 µg/day	55 µg/day	11 mg/day

Species	Tissue	Processing
Spotted Seal	Blubber	Raw	0.07	1.28	6.04	0.19	0.21	BDL^d	25.1	3.00
Spotted Seal	Blubber	Rendered	0.01	BDL^d	BDL^d	0.03	0.09	BDL^d	2.62	1.65
Spotted Seal	Muscle	Raw	0.32	14.5	256	5.54	0.94	BDL^d	118	17.8
Spotted Seal	Muscle	Boiled	0.35	16.4	339	5.09	0.96	BDL^d	127	25.1
Spotted Seal	Muscle	Dried	0.85	34.7	686	14.3	2.12	BDL^d	301	49.5
Spotted Seal	Liver	Raw	0.37	183	490	4.77	29.5	123	544	38.3
Spotted Seal	Liver	Fried	0.68	193	539	5.36	35.6	178	692	49.4
Spotted Seal	Kidney	Raw	0.65	45.4	170	3.66	5.92	26.2	959	23.8
Spotted Seal	Kidney	Boiled	0.73	39.1	227	3.37	5.71	41.0	687	32.6
Sheefish	Muscle	Raw	0.33	3.59	3.56	9.86	1.05	BDL^d	53.3	3.47
Sheefish	Muscle	Baked (no skin)	0.15	5.33	4.68	10.3	1.22	BDL^d	58.2	4.39
Sheefish	Muscle	Baked (with skin)	0.12	4.38	5.49	9.26	1.16	BDL^d	54.7	4.00
Sheefish	Muscle	Dried (no skin)	0.44	7.49	8.13	16.8	1.70	BDL^d	93.3	7.15
Sheefish	Muscle	Dried (with skin)	1.00	9.29	5.44	19.4	2.15	BDL^d	106	7.34
Sheefish	Muscle	Smoked (no skin)	0.13	5.36	4.13	12.2	1.40	BDL^d	70.0	4.61
Sheefish	Muscle	Smoked (with skin)	0.21	4.77	4.24	8.90	1.41	BDL^d	66.9	4.79

Bold text highlights contributions of >100% of DRI of a given element by a 100g meal of the specified tissue.

Contributions to the DRI of K and Na are not included because no DRI exists for these elements.

Reference group used for DRI analysis is men ages 31–50.

BDL = No contribution to DRI calculated because element was below detection limit in tissue. All samples were BDL for Cr.