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The first harmonised total diet study in Portugal: Vitamin D occurrence and intake assessment.
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Food chemistry [Food Chem] 2024 Mar 01; Vol. 435, pp. 136676. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 22. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Vitamin D acts in calcium and phosphate homeostasis and also as an immunomodulatory hormone. To estimate the vitamin D intake by the 'adults' and 'elderly' Portuguese populations TDS methodology was used, since in the absence of skin UVB exposure, food and supplements are the only vitamin D sources. Vitamin D was quantifiable in 78 (24 from the fish group) of the 164 TDS samples. Sea bream contained the most vitamin D (13.8 µg/100 g), followed by plaice (9.2 µg/100 g). MCRA software (semi-probabilistic approach) was used to estimate the median vitamin D intake that ranged between 2.47 ('adults' 'males') - 1.45 ('elderly' 'females') µg/day, well below the Dietary Reference Values (5-15 µg/day). Plaice, sea bream and sardine were the main contributors to intake. A prevalence of 94% inadequate vitamin D intake for 'adults' and 'elderly' was found based on the estimated average requirement of 10 µg/day.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.<br /> (Copyright © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1873-7072
- Volume :
- 435
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Food chemistry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37797450
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136676