TABLE 2.

Vitamin D intake estimates based on retail food commodity intake: U.S. men and women aged >20 y¹

	Content mean for selected foods		Estimated vitamin D intake based on commodity consumption
Commodity group	nm-Vitamin D2	25(OH)D2	Intake	nm-Vitamin D3	Potency-adjusted 25(OH)D4	Total: nm-vitamin D plus potency-adjusted 25(OH)D
	μg/100 g		g/d	μg/d	μg/d	μg/d
Men aged ≥20 y
Beef, raw	0.08	0.22	81	0.06	0.89	0.95
Pork, raw	0.50	0.17	44	0.22	0.37	0.59
Chicken, raw	0.09	0.14	69	0.06	0.48	0.54
Turkey, raw	0.34	0.07	9	0.03	0.03	0.06
Egg, raw	2.5	0.65	35	0.87	1.14	2.01
Sum5			—	1.24 (50 IU)	2.91 (116 IU)	4.15 (166 IU)
Women aged ≥20 y
Beef, raw	0.08	0.22	45	0.04	0.50	0.54
Pork, raw	0.50	0.17	21	0.11	0.18	0.29
Chicken, raw	0.09	0.14	48	0.04	0.34	0.38
Turkey, raw	0.34	0.07	9	0.03	0.03	0.06
Egg, raw	2.5	0.65	21	0.53	0.68	1.21
Sum5			—	0.75 (30 IU)	1.73 (69 IU)	2.48 (99 IU)

¹From the study by Bowman et al. (19). nm-Vitamin D, nonmetabolized vitamin D; 25(OH)D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

²The content from nm-vitamin D and 25(OH)D mean for foods selected for study as shown in Table 1.

³Form of vitamin D reported in National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference Release 26 (12).

⁴Adjusted for potency using a factor of 5.

⁵Summation of aggregated data can potentially be misleading but is included here for the purposes of signal generation.