Table 1.
Example of two diets on 1800 kilocalories.
| Standard meal plan | Ethnic meal plan | |||
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| Meal | Porzion size | Meal | Porzion size | |
| Breakfast | Milk, skimmed | 1 cup | Yogurt, skimmed | 1 |
| White bread | 1 slice | Crackers | 4 slices | |
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| Snack | Apple | 1 | Mango | 1 |
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| Lunch | Pasta | 1 cup | Cous cous | 1 cup |
| Vegetables | 1/2 cup | Vegetables | 1/2 cup | |
| Meat | 100 g | Poultry | 3/4 | |
| Bread without yeast | 1 slices | |||
| Olive oil | 2 T | Sunflower oil | 2 T | |
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| Snack | Yogurt, skim | 1 | Banana | 1 |
| White bread | 1 slice | Yogurt, skim | 1 | |
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| Dinner | Soup with: | Soup with: | ||
| Pasta | 1/2 cup | Beans | 1/2 cup | |
| Parmesan | 1 T | Potatoes | One small | |
| Lentils | 1/2 cup | |||
| White bread | 2 slice | Plantain | one | |
| Vegetables | 1/2 cup | Vegetables | 1/2 cup | |
| Mozzarella | 100 g | |||
| Olive oil | 2 T | Olive oil | 2 T | |
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| Snack at bedtime | Milk, skimmed | 1 cup | Yogurt, skimmed | 1 |
| White bread | 1 slice | Crackers | 2 slices | |
T: tablespoon = 10 g; 1 cup liquid = 200 mL; 1 cup solid = 80 g; one slice = 30 g; Plantain = 100 g; 1 Fruit = 200 g.