John Sankey wrote:
:: I went through the Finnish National Public Health Institute Nutrition
:: Unit data for Vitamin D (expressed in micrograms per 100 g portion),
:: converted it to International Units (using 1 ug = 40 IU) per 100
:: calorie serving (which is what I keep all my data in), and compared
:: it to the USDA current values for the few foods which appeared to
:: match up.
::
:: Here is the appalling result:
::
:: FOOD USDA Fineli
:: beef,weiner 3 5
:: cheese,edam 3 2
:: cod,fillet 13 342
:: egg,whole 6 60
:: herring,can 60 250
:: mushroom,white 86 690
:: perch,ocean 18 390
:: sardine,can 65 112
:: tuna,can 9 47
::
:: Not only are the Finnish values 8+x the USDA on average, but the data
:: simply don't correlate by any statistical test I know of. How on
:: earth are we supposed to plan a diet with this kind of data variance?
::
:: Juhanna, if you'll check http://sankey.ws/contact.html and trust me
:: with your personal email address, I'd really appreciate it if you
:: would check over my data and see if by any chance I've goofed
:: somewhere.
::
:: There's a lot of iodine data at Fineli as well, vs. none at the USDA,
:: and I'd be ever so grateful if I have just goofed somewhere in my
:: numbers and can get back to planning my diet.
Hi John,
I found a Danish data base which looks very well done. I hope it helps you
to find out what went wrong. I agree that the discrepancies are so great
that it can not be natural variation but some kind of mistake.
http://www.foodcomp.dk/fcdb_foodcomplist.asp?CompId=0023
If you can figure it out, please tell me also where the problem was. (I sent
you an e-mail also.)
--
Juhana