Table 3.

Distribution of dietary protein intake from 3-day food diaries with unadjusted 95% confidence interval for comparison.

Variables	Period
	Breakfast Mean ± SEM [95% CI]	Lunch Mean ± SEM [95% CI]	Dinner Mean ± SEM [95% CI]	Total Mean ± SEM [95% CI]
Total protein (g)	17.4 ± 0.8	28.1 ± 0.9	39.8 ± 1.1	85.3 ± 1.8
	[15.9, 18.9]	[26.3, 29.8]	[37.7, 42.0]	[81.6, 88.9]
Relative protein (g/kg)	0.255 ± 0.012	0.418 ± 0.015	0.588 ± 0.018	1.262 ± 0.033
	[0.232, 0.278]	[0.388, 0.448]	[0.553, 0.623]	[1.197, 1.326]
Percent of energy (%)	3.5 ± 0.2	5.7 ± 0.2	8.0 ± 0.2	17.3 ± 0.3
	[3.2, 3.8]	[5.4, 6.0]	[7.7, 8.4]	[16.6, 17.9]
Percent of total protein (%)	20.0 ± 0.7	33.2 ± 0.8	46.8 ± 0.8	100*
	[18.6, 21.4]	[31.6, 34.7]	[45.2, 48.4]

Abbreviations: 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; SEM, standard error of the mean.

^*Standard error and 95% confidence interval could not be calculated as all values were 100.