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. 2022 Mar 16;9:817808. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.817808

Table 4.

Salt, fat, and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in EMR (4, 11, 12, 63).

Salt Dietary fats and oils Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
Estimated sodium Mean population salt Saturated Omega-6 Trans fat Dietary Seafood Plant Mean juice intake Mean SSB intake Mean milk intake
intakes (g/day) in 2010 intake, adults (g/day) in 2016 fat PUFA fat cholesterol omega-3 omega-3 (servings/day) (servings/day) (servings/day)
(% energy) (% energy) (% energy) (mg/d) fat (mg/d) fat (mg/d)
Both M F Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total F M Both F M Both F M Both
Afghanistan 3.39 3.55 3.22 9 8 9 10.8 4.6 1.3 212 30 665 0.03 0.02 0.03 0.34 0.37 0.36 0.36 0.34 0.35
Bahrain 5.38 5.57 5.05 14 13 14 8.9 6.4 3.2 245 52 1,451 0.26 0.22 0.24 0.50 0.53 0.51 0.79 0.70 0.75
Djibouti 2.36 2.48 2.24 6 6 6 15.2 3.7 0.7 213 13 640 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.75 0.81 0.78 0.49 0.45 0.47
Egypt 3.68 3.85 3.52 10 9 9 9.6 4.8 6.5 402 42 568 0.14 0.12 0.13 0.32 0.34 0.33 0.61 0.55 0.58
Iran 4.02 4.21 3.83 11 10 10 10.8 6.2 2.4 232 77 1,195 0.34 0.28 0.31 0.17 0.17 0.17 0.62 0.56 0.59
Iraq 3.76 3.95 3.59 10 9 10 10.3 4.4 1.7 288 50 922 0.14 0.11 0.13 0.37 0.40 0.38 0.52 0.44 0.48
Jordan 4.13 4.31 3.95 11 10 10 11.3 6.6 1.6 239 44 1,410 0.15 0.13 0.14 0.60 0.67 0.64 0.72 0.65 0.68
Kuwait 3.88 4.01 3.65 10 9 10 12.8 5.7 1.8 214 47 1,159 0.11 0.09 0.10 0.42 0.46 0.44 0.69 0.64 0.66
Lebanon 3.13 3.3 2.98 8 8 8 11.2 9.9 1.6 287 76 1,918 0.20 0.17 0.18 0.69 0.74 0.72 0.33 0.29 0.31
Libya 4.24 4.45 4.03 11 10 11 7.4 7.8 1.6 194 8 1,265 0.16 0.14 0.15 0.40 0.44 0.42 0.63 0.57 0.60
Morocco 4.31 4.53 4.11 12 10 11 9 6.4 1 239 60 1,283 0.13 0.10 0.12 0.46 0.50 0.48 0.29 0.26 0.28
Oman 3.78 3.93 3.56 10 9 10 10.3 5.9 1.8 253 45 1,181 0.16 0.14 0.15 0.40 0.43 0.42 0.56 0.50 0.53
Pakistan 3.91 4.05 3.75 10 10 10 3.8 3.5 5.8 157 16 277 0.05 0.04 0.04 0.45 0.50 0.48 0.54 0.50 0.52
Palestine 3.86 4.04 3.69 _ _ _ 8.6 5.2 1.9 258 63 973 0.16 0.14 0.15 0.43 0.46 0.44 0.62 0.56 0.59
Qatar 4.21 4.29 3.9 11 10 11 10.2 6.8 1.7 220 8 1,505 0.23 0.19 0.21 0.48 0.51 0.50 0.73 0.65 0.69
KSA 3.2 3.33 3.03 8 8 8 13.5 4.1 1.1 286 50 656 0.37 0.31 0.34 0.38 0.42 0.40 0.68 0.61 0.64
Somalia 2.07 2.17 1.97 6 5 5 10.9 3.8 0.7 170 48 337 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.23 0.26 0.25 0.17 0.15 0.16
Sudan 2.37 2.49 2.26 _ _ 8.2* 9.1 4.7 1.1 278 1,291 526 0.05 0.04 0.05 0.59 0.66 0.62 1.03 0.93 0.98
Syria 4.18 4.37 3.99 11 10 11 9.7 5.6 1.5 251 58 1,134 0.20 0.16 0.18 0.50 0.54 0.52 0.81 0.73 0.77
Tunisia 4.43 4.63 4.24 12 11 11 9.8 7.5 1 286 17 2,215 0.12 0.10 0.11 0.40 0.43 0.42 0.63 0.58 0.61
UAE 3.67 3.76 3.43 10 9 9 10.7 5.2 1.1 262 377 962 0.28 0.23 0.25 0.43 0.47 0.45 0.73 0.67 0.70
Yemen 3.37 3.55 3.21 9 8 9 13.9 3.6 1.5 224 52 362 0.12 0.09 0.10 0.44 0.49 0.46 0.34 0.30 0.32