Table 4.

Comparison of total energy and nutrient intake between previous (McCance and Widdowson) and updated (Nutrient databank + other updates) in 207,144 participants from UK Biobank

Nutrient	Spearman's r	Percentage in the same fifth	Percentage in the same or adjacent fifth	Weighted k
Energy	0.962	78.7	98.9	0.86
Protein	0.973	81.4	99.3	0.88
Total fat	0.952	71.1	98.8	0.81
SFA	0.908	62.3	96.5	0.74
PUFAa	0.887	58.2	94.6	0.71
TFA	0.583	37.6	76.3	0.42
Carbohydrates	0.952	77.1	98.5	0.84
Total sugars	0.959	77.8	98.6	0.85
Englyst fibre	0.935	67.8	97.6	0.79
Alcohol	0.990	93.0	100.0	0.96
Calcium	0.935	72.4	97.6	0.81
Iron	0.939	67.5	98.2	0.79
Magnesium	0.957	76.4	98.7	0.84
Potassium	0.945	76.1	98.1	0.84
Total carotene	0.894	61.4	95.2	0.73
Folate	0.914	64.0	96.5	0.76
Vitamin B6	0.813	50.7	89.7	0.63
Vitamin B12	0.911	65.4	96.2	0.76
Vitamin C	0.955	73.6	98.8	0.83
Vitamin D	0.856	58.2	92.6	0.69
Vitamin E	0.790	48.9	88.1	0.60
Retinol	0.797	52.5	90.7	0.64

PUFA polyunsaturated fatty acids, SFA saturated fatty acids, TFA trans fatty acids

^aFor the Nutrient databank this is the sum of n−3 and n−6 PUFAs