Table 5.
Dietary scenarios used to model the implications for daily iodine intake when replacing cow’s milk dairy products and fish with plant-based alternatives products
| Iodine provided* (µg/d) | Iodine provided as percentage of iodine intake recommendation | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scenario | Adult (% of 150 µg/d)(1) | Pregnancy/lactation (% of 200 µg/d)(1) | ||
| Reference dairy scenario | Three portions of dairy per day from cow’s milk: one portion each of milk, yoghurt and cheese | 124·0 | 83·0 % | 62·0 % |
| I | Two portions of fortified plant-based dairy: one portion of fortified milk alternative, one portion of fortified yoghurt alternative and one portion of unfortified cheese alternative | 83·6 | 55·7 % | 41·8 % |
| II | One portion of fortified plant-based dairy: one portion of fortified milk alternative, one portion of unfortified yoghurt and one portion of unfortified cheese alternative | 51·1 | 34·1 % | 25·6 % |
| III | Three portions of unfortified plant-based dairy alternatives: one portion each of unfortified milk, yoghurt and cheese alternative products | 2·6 | 1·8 % | 1·3 % |
| Reference fish scenario | Two portions of fish/week: one portion of white fish and one portion of oily fish | 24·0† | 16·0 % | 12·0 % |
| IV | Two portions of fish alternative products/week | 0·2† | 0·13 % | 0·10 % |
*
Calculated using data from Table 3.
†
Adjusted to daily value by dividing by 7.