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. 2018 Mar 12;8:4344. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-22691-1

Table 4.

Nutrients at risk of deficiency in highly personalised, mainly plant-based diets.

Nutrient Diet with low θ
Choline I (0.02), II (0.02)
Vitamin E I (0.03), II (0.03)
Vitamin B6 I (0.04), II (0.04)
Selenium I (0.12), II (0.15)

We here consider the following two personalised cases: 61-year-old male (case I) and 58-year-old female (case II), who practise a plant-based, methionine-restricted diet, and consume a limited amount of animal products. Cases I and II are different in their physical conditions and specific food intakes, as described in the main text. In case I or II, each nutrient is assigned θ, and low θ indicates a risk of the nutrient deficiency in that case (see Methods). We list the nutrients that have θ ≤ 0.15 in either case I or II. For each nutrient, we specify the case I or II that gives θ ≤ 0.15 (I, case I; II, case II; the specific value of θ is presented in parentheses beside each case). Here, we omit rather trivial information of a risk of methionine deficiency in these methionine-restricted diets.