Table 2.

Daily intake, calcium concentration, and percent contribution to total calcium for selected food groups

Food item/group	Median daily intake (g)*	Median mg calcium per g food group*	Percent contribution of each food group to total calcium intake†
Total vegetables	97.2	3.5	19.3
Cruciferous vegetables	36.9	9.3	9.3
Dairy products	20.4	15.0	17.3
All grain products	459.4	0.8	14.7
Bread	25.5	14.3	5.3
Noodles	38.5	9.3	4.7
Rice	335.4	1.1	3.0
All soyfoods	85.5	4.0	11.8
Total fruit	158.7	2.3	7.3
All fish and shellfish	47.8	7.5	6.2

^*These values were derived from intake among all female cohort subjects.

^†The percent contribution to total calcium intake was calculated using 24-hour dietary recalls among a randomly selected subset of cohort subjects (see Methods).