Nutrient requirements and recommended daily intakes

Abstract

Many committees have produced tables of recommended dietary intakes. All are careful to stress that their recommendations are amounts sufficient, or more than sufficient, for the nutritional needs of practically all healthy persons in the population but are not a precise statement of nutrient requirements. The recommendations may ‘serve as guides for government officials and others whose duty it is to plan agricultural production and to control imports and exports of food in order to ensure that the food supply will be sufficient to meet the needs of the people’ and ‘may be used as a guide for caterers and dietitians when planning diets for groups of healthy individuals’

Citation

Kemm, J.R. (1980), "Nutrient requirements and recommended daily intakes", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 80 No. 2, pp. 2-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058788