Table 3. Estimated AA intake from each food item using Mote Carlo simulation.
| Food item | Median (ng/kg bw/day) |
95th
percentile (ng/kg bw/day) |
Mean (ng/kg bw/day) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Coffee (Extracts) | 11 | 29 | 13 |
| Instant Coffee (Freeze-dried) | 9.0 | 29 | 12 |
| Potato (Sautéed) | 7.0 | 24 | 9.1 |
| Bean sprout (Fried/Sautéed) | 4.9 | 28 | 8.5 |
| Molded mashed potato snack | 4.8 | 25 | 7.9 |
| Wheat flour snack | 4.5 | 37 | 10 |
| Onions (Surface fried) | 4.3 | 38 | 10 |
| Green tea/Oolong tea (Extracts) | 4.3 | 13 | 5.3 |
| Potato (Fried) | 3.9 | 28 | 8.0 |
| Onion (Fried/Sautéed) | 3.7 | 17 | 5.6 |
| Potato chips | 3.7 | 55 | 14 |
| Green pepper (Fried/Sautéed) | 3.5 | 22 | 6.6 |
| Hashed beef/Curry/Beef stew paste | 3.5 | 19 | 5.9 |
| Cooked rice | 3.5 | 8 | 3.9 |
| Rice cracker | 2.2 | 20 | 5.3 |
| Cabbage (Fried/Sautéed) | 2.0 | 11 | 3.4 |
| Bread crumb for coating in frying | 1.9 | 7.9 | 2.8 |
| Karinto <Fried dough cookie> (With non-centrifugal sugar) | 1.9 | 5.7 | 2.4 |
| Hoji-cha <Roasted tea> (Extracts) | 1.9 | 10 | 3.3 |
| Bottled Mugi-cha tea <Roasted barley extracts> | 1.9 | 6.5 | 2.5 |
| Mugi-cha tea <Roasted barley extracts infused at home> | 1.9 | 7.4 | 2.6 |
| Coffee-based beverage | 1.6 | 4.4 | 2.0 |
| Instant noodle | 1.6 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
| Roasted sesame seed | 1.4 | 7.5 | 2.4 |
| Bread roll (Untoasted/Without non-centrifugal sugar) | 1.3 | 3.8 | 1.6 |
| Bread roll (Untoasted/With non-centrifugal sugar) | 1.1 | 3.0 | 1.3 |
| Sliced bread (Toasted/ Without non-centrifugal sugar) | 0.83 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
| Manju <Japanese steamed bun> (With non-centrifugal sugar) | 0.76 | 1.9 | 0.89 |
| Corn flour snack | 0.66 | 5.8 | 1.6 |
| Eggplant (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.63 | 3.3 | 1.0 |
| Bread roll/French bread | 0.59 | 3.1 | 0.98 |
| Cocoa (Powder) | 0.56 | 2.3 | 0.81 |
| Rice miso paste | 0.49 | 1.4 | 0.60 |
| Non-centrifugal sugar (Excluding Wasanbon-to <Traditional Japanese refined sugar>) | 0.48 | 3.3 | 0.95 |
| Sweetened bun | 0.46 | 1.3 | 0.56 |
| Sliced bread (Untoasted/Without non-centrifugal sugar) | 0.42 | 0.90 | 0.47 |
| Soy sauce | 0.37 | 1.4 | 0.51 |
| Almond | 0.34 | 1.3 | 0.46 |
| Cereal | 0.33 | 4.8 | 1.3 |
| Peanut | 0.30 | 1.4 | 0.45 |
| Dried fruits | 0.27 | 1.8 | 0.51 |
| Potatoes (Surface fried) | 0.27 | 0.75 | 0.32 |
| Imo-kenpi (Fried sweet potatoes) | 0.26 | 0.94 | 0.35 |
| Broccoli (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.22 | 1.2 | 0.37 |
| Kinako <Roasted soybean flour> | 0.19 | 0.90 | 0.30 |
| Candy (With non-centrifugal sugar) | 0.19 | 0.67 | 0.25 |
| Pumpkin (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.18 | 1.1 | 0.34 |
| Podded pea (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.15 | 1.4 | 0.38 |
| White stew paste | 0.13 | 0.30 | 0.14 |
| Asparagus (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.11 | 0.61 | 0.19 |
| English Tea (Extracts) | 0.096 | 0.25 | 0.11 |
| Curry powder | 0.079 | 0.46 | 0.14 |
| String beans (Fried/Sautéed) | 0.071 | 0.52 | 0.15 |
| Fried beans | 0.059 | 0.059 | 0.059 |
| Soybean miso paste | 0.025 | 0.082 | 0.032 |
| English muffin/Naan | 0.020 | 0.076 | 0.028 |
| Bolo <Small round cookie> | 0.015 | 0.060 | 0.021 |
| Mugikogashi <Roasted barley flour> | 0.0095 | 0.0095 | 0.0095 |
| Wasanbon-to <Traditional Japanese refined sugar> | 0.0056 | 0.0056 | 0.0056 |
| Pistachio | 0.0038 | 0.0038 | 0.0038 |
| Total (ng/kg bw/day) | 154 | 261 | 166 |