Table 2.

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

Food item/group	Median daily intake (g)*	Average mg calcium per g food group*	Percent contribution of each food group to total calcium intake†
Total vegetables	98.2	3.7	19.3
Green vegetables	58.8	6.2	16.3
Cruciferous vegetables	37.6	9.7	9.3
Dairy products	19.3	16.8	17.3
All grain products	555.7	0.6	14.7
Noodles	47.9	7.8	4.7
Rice	441.4	0.8	3.0
All soyfoods	91.0	4.0	11.8
Total fruit	174.1	2.2	7.3
Citrus fruit	39.1	9.9	4.4
All fish and shellfish	54.2	7.0	6.2

^*These values were derived from intake among all male 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).