Table 1.

Contribution of meat to 2018 global nutrient availability.

	Nutrient	Percentage of	Percentage of	Percentage of	Percentage of	Percentage of	Percentage of
		global availability	global availability	global availability	global availability	global availability	global availability
		provided by	provided by	provided by	provided by	provided by	provided by
		all meat	ruminant meat	poultry meat	pig meat	other meat	separated offal and fats
Macronutrients	Carbohydrates	<0.5	<0.5	<0.5	<0.5	<0.5	<0.5
	Energy	11	2	2	4	<0.5	2
	Fat	29	5	6	12	<0.5	5
	Fiber	No contribution	No contribution	No contribution	No contribution	No contribution	No contribution
	Protein	21	6	6	7	1	1
Minerals	Calcium	4	<0.5	3	1	<0.5	<0.5
	Copper	10	1	1	1	<0.5	7
	Iron	13	3	3	2	1	4
	Magnesium	3	1	1	1	<0.5	<0.5
	Phosphorous	11	3	3	4	<0.5	1
	Potassium	7	2	1	2	<0.5	1
	Selenium	18	3	4	9	<0.5	2
	Zinc	19	8	4	5	1	2
Vitamins	Vitamin A	24	<0.5	7	<0.5	<0.5	17
	Vitamin B1 (thiamine)	15	1	1	8	<0.5	1
	Vitamin B2 (riboflavin)	15	3	3	4	<0.5	5
	Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid)	10	1	4	2	<0.5	3
	Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine)	13	3	4	4	1	1
	Vitamin B9 (folate)	4	<0.5	2	<0.5	<0.5	1
	Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)	56	14	5	5	1	31
	Vitamin C	1	No contribution	1	<0.5	<0.5	<0.5
	Vitamin E	1	<0.5	<0.5	1	<0.5	<0.5
Indispensable amino acids (bioavailability included)	Cystine	16	5	5	5	<0.5	1
	Histidine	26	7	7	9	1	1
	Leucine	21	7	6	7	1	1
	Lysine	32	10	10	10	1	2
	Methionine	25	8	8	7	1	1
	Threonine	25	8	7	8	1	1
	Tryptophan	19	6	5	6	<0.5	1

Values in the ruminant meat, poultry meat, pig meat, other meat and offal and fats columns may not sum to the value in the all meat column due to rounding.