Use of the Core Food Model to Estimate Mineral Intakes Part 1. Selection of U.S. Core Foods

✍ Scribed by Jean A.T. Pennington

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0889-1575
• DOI: 10.1006/jfca.2001.1000

✦ Synopsis

Core foods are di!erent from the &&key foods'' identi"ed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Key foods are the foods that are major suppliers of nutrients for the US population (those that contribute up to 75% of any one nutrient), and they are identi"ed by USDA to set priorities for food analyses. (See JFCA 9, 331}363, 1996.) Thus, the key food program is not an approach for estimating dietary intake of food components, as is the core food approach. USDA checks its database for the composition of the key foods to determine which foods have missing analytical values, and this helps them set priorities for food and nutrient analyses.