Science Unit 4 Assignment: Food Journaling & Nutrient Tracking

Unit 4 Assignment Nutrient Tables (STEP 3)

To complete these tables, please have your Nutrition Report available (report from Trends – Nutrition Report on Cronometer). The shaded table cells are the sections you’ll need to enter your information.

See the sample assignment for an example or feel free to ask questions via the Ask the Professor discussion board or through email.

Table 1: Calories (Energy)

Use the "Energy Summary” circles on your Nutrition Report to fill in this table.

Calories Consumed	Calories Burned	Remaining/Over
1993	1509	484 calories over

Table 2: Percent of Nutrients from Each Macronutrient

Hover over the blue (carbohydrates), red (fat), or protein (green) sections of the “Consumed” circle in the “Energy Summary” section of your report to fill in these three boxes of Table 2.

Be sure to add up the three percentages to make sure they equal 100%. Your total may be slightly over or under due to rounding. Enter the sum of percentages of total calories from carbohydrates, fat, and protein into the fourth-row middle column.

Nutrient	Percent of Total Calories	AMDR
Carbohydrates	42%	45 – 65%
Fat	39%	20 – 35%
Protein	19%	10 – 35%
Total:	= 100%

Table 3: Micronutrients

To complete this table, you will use your Cronometer report as well as the RDA/AI information and the Tolerable Upper Limit information available at the following links. Your ‘Average Intake’ will come from the Cronometer report.

The RDA/AI column information will come from the links labeled with “RDA/AI” except for Vitamin D.

For Vitamin D, the units from Cronometer do not match the RDA/AI units found in the link below. While this is the most recent publication for RDA/AIs, presently IUs are the preferable measurement for vitamin D. As a result, Cronometer provides the results in IUs for this vitamin. Use the following reference:

Vitamin D – RDA 600 IU for males and females

The Tolerable Upper Intake Level column information will come from the links labeled with “Tolerable Upper Limits.”

Vitamins RDA/AI (RDA/AI column in the table below)

· Note: Vitamin D is not in the same unit of measurement as the Cronometer Nutrition Report. Please us 600 IU in the RDA/AI column. See above for more information.

Vitamins Tolerable Upper Limits (Tolerable Upper Limit column in the table below)

· Note: Vitamin D is not in the same unit of measurement as the Cronometer Nutrition Report. Please us 4000 IU in the Tolerable Upper Intake Level column.

Minerals RDA/AI (RDA/AI column in the table below)

· Note: Copper is not in the same unit of measurement as the Cronometer Nutrition Report. Please convert the RDA/AI to mg by dividing the RDA/AI from the link by 100 to obtain the information in mg.

Minerals Tolerable Upper Limits (Tolerable Upper Limit column in the table below)

· Note: The phosphorus Tolerable Upper Intake Level is in grams. Please multiply by 100 to obtain the correct information in the same measurement unit. Example: 4 g x 100 = 4,000 mg.

Nutrient	Average Intake	RDA/AI	Tolerable Upper Limit
B1 (Thiamine)	1.4 mg	1.4 mg	ND
B2 (Riboflavin)	1.6 mg	1.6 mg	ND
B3 (Niacin)	34.4 mg	17 mg	35 mg
B5 (Pantothenic Acid)	7.5 mg	7 mg	ND
B6 (Pyridoxine)	2.8 mg	2 mg	100 mg
B12 (Cobalamin)	3.5 µg	2.8 µg	ND
Folate	404 µg	500 µg	1,000 µg
Vitamin A	605.8 µg	1,300 µg	3,000 µg
Vitamin C	56.7 mg	120 mg	2,000 mg
Vitamin D	147.1 IU	600 IU	4,000 IU
Vitamin E	14.1 mg	19 mg	1,000 mg
Vitamin K	112.2 µg	90 µg	ND
Calcium	365.2 mg	1,000 mg	2,500 mg
Copper	1.5 mg	1.3 mg	100 mg
Iron	12.6 mg	9 mg	45 mg
Magnesium	425.6 mg	320 mg	350 mg
Manganese	6.1 mg	2.6 mg	11 mg
Phosphorus	1412.6 mg	700 mg	4,000 mg
Potassium	2905.1 mg	2,800 mg	ND
Selenium	119 µg	70 µg	400 µg
Sodium	1112 mg	1,500 mg	ND
Zinc	10.2 mg	12 mg	40 mg

Dietary Reference Intakes are provided by the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine ( National Academy of Sciences and the National Institutes of Health)