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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Nutr Res. 2011 Aug 19;31(8):579–585. doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2011.07.003

Table 4.

Percentage of total vitamin D intake from food categories, by race, among girls in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study.

 Whites Visit 3 Visit 4 Visit 5 Visit 7 Visit 8 Visit 10
Milk 58.9 57.2 56.7 53.2 52.6 49.4
Meat and Beans 14.1 13.6 14.1 13.3 14.3 14.4
Fats &Oils 13.2 14.1 15.1 17.0 15.7 18.0
Grains 9.8 10.4 9.5 10.5 11.8 12.5
RTE cereals (subset of grains) 9.0 9.4 8.3 8.8 9.0 10.2
Sweets and desserts 3.3 3.8 3.6 5.2 4.8 5.0
Miscellaneous 0.8 1.0 1.1 0.8 0.7 0.7
African-Americans
Milk 43.5 41.1 37.8 37.5 38.7 35.5
Meat and Beans 25.7 25.6 28.6 26.2 25.6 26.6
Fats &Oils 15.0 16.6 17.8 18.7 19.4 21.7
Grains 10.3 10.5 9.4 11.1 10.8 11.1
RTE cereals (subset of grains) 9.5 9.4 8.5 9.0 8.3 9.1
Sweets and desserts 3.9 4.1 4.1 6.0 5.1 4.6
Miscellaneous 1.5 2.1 2.2 0.5 0.5 0.5

Note: Numbers do not add to 100% by race within each column due to rounding and to the inclusion of RTE cereal [a subset of the grains category].