Table 6.
Zinc status in non-pregnant non-lactating women sorted by dietary type and food intake
(Percentages with their standard errors, and mean values and standard deviations)
| A: Zn deficiency | B: inadequate Zn intake† | C: total Zn intake (mg/d) | G: meat intake (g/d) | H: fish intake (g/d) | I: egg intake (g/d) | J: cereal intake (g/d) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | se | % | se | Mean | sd | D: absorbable Zn intake (mg/d)‡§ | E: physiological requirement (mg/d)∥ | F: % of physiological requirement met¶ | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |
| Mixed diet†† | 59·2* | 3·3 | 90·1** | 1·6 | 4·5** | 2·2 | 1·41 | 1·86 | 75·8 | 27·6** | 35·6 | 58·6** | 44·3 | 11·7** | 17·4 | 337·1** | 132 |
| Cereal-based diet‡‡ | 48·3 | 6·4 | 100·0 | 0 | 2·4 | 1·0 | 0·56 | 1·86 | 30·1 | 6·7 | 10·6 | 22·5 | 17·9 | 3·4 | 9·4 | 457·4 | 211 |
Significantly different from cereal-based diet: * P = 0·32, ** P < 0·001.
†
Dietary Zn intake <7 mg/d (estimated average requirement) in women(1).
‡
Absorption in women of 31 and 23 % for mixed and unrefined cereal-based diets, respectively(1).
§
D = C × 0·31 and D = C × 0·23 for mixed and cereal based diets, respectively(1).
∥
Physiological requirement of absorbed Zn in adult women(1).
¶
F = D/E × 100.
††
Phytate-Zn molar ratio (4–18)(1).
‡‡
Phytate-Zn molar ratio (>18)(1).