. 2022 Sep 20;26(3):563–574. doi: 10.1017/S136898002200204X

Table 5.

Prevalence (%) of failing to meet EAR for each micronutrient and the average number of micronutrients failing to meet EAR according to groups of adherence to the overall, healthful and unhealthful provegetarian FP

	Overall provegetarian FP			Healthful provegetarian FP			Unhealthful provegetarian FP
	G1	G2	G3	G1	G2	G3	G1	G2	G3
Range	12–35	36–39	40–57	30–52	53–58	59–82	31–55	56–60	61–83
n	7032	5452	5341	6295	5670	5860	6745	5310	5770
Number of nutrients below the EAR	3·4	2·8	2·3	2·7	3·0	3·0	1·9	2·8	4·1
Prevalence (%) of failing to meet EAR
Vitamin A	9·3	5·0	1·8	8·2	5·8	3·1	0·9	3·9	13·2
Vitamin E	97·1	94·7	88·9	94·4	94·7	92·7	90·4	94·9	97·1
Vitamin C	3·3	0·9	0·2	1·9	2·1	1·0	0·2	1·1	3·8
Vitamin B₁	6·3	2·7	0·9	1·7	4·4	4·8	0·4	2·6	8·2
Vitamin B₂	2·3	2·1	1·3	0·6	2·2	3·0	0·2	1·1	4·7
Vitamin B₃	0·2	0·1	0·1	0·03	0·1	0·3	0·0	0·1	0·4
Vitamin B₆	2·4	0·9	0·3	0·7	1·7	1·6	0·03	0·5	3·6
Vitamin B₁₂	0·5	0·9	1·3	0·2	0·6	1·8	0·2	0·6	1·9
Vitamin D	73·6	74·9	73·5	75·3	73·9	72·5	60·6	77·0	86·7
Folic acid	52·2	30·9	13·9	43·1	35·2	23·8	13	33·6	59·7
Fe	2·4	0·6	0·1	0·6	1·5	1·4	0·1	0·7	2·9
Ca	19·9	20·1	18·2	13·5	20·1	25·3	8·7	18·6	32·9
K	19·5	9·1	3·4	11·2	13·3	10·1	2·3	9·1	24·4
Mg	28·9	16·4	7·4	17·4	20·8	17·9	5·2	17·4	35·4
P	0·2	0·2	0·1	0·03	0·2	0·3	0·0	0·04	0·5
Cr	2·7	1·1	0·2	0·9	1·9	1·6	0·1	1·0	3·4
Se	5·4	4·4	3·6	1·9	4·8	7·1	1·1	3·6	9·5
I	6·5	9·4	10·7	5·5	8·5	12·1	4·1	7·7	14·7
Zn	8·2	5·8	3·9	3·4	7·1	8·2	1·5	4·9	12·7

EAR, estimated average requirement; FP, food pattern; G, groups.