Nutrition Comparison

In the table below you can compare how much nutrients various foodstuff have, as a factor of the Recommended Dietary Allowances(i) (RDAs), per 2000 kcal of energy, which is close to an average persons daily need of energy. This is the easiest way to understand how much nutrients various foods have. The data comes from the US Department of Agriculture’s FoodData Central (https://fdc.nal.usda.gov) and has been recalculated from nutrients per 100 g.

As additional guiding, color green for “rich nutrition”, yellow for “medium nutrition” and gray for “poor nutrition”, have been added to applicable fields. The division of these categories has been decided at BottomUpHealth.net.

For many nutrients the optimal intakes are well above the RDAs, since the RDAs are like minimum requirements, to avoid apparent deficiency. In general, it’s good to eat more of the rich nutrition food and less of the poor nutrition food.

To view the nutrition columns, there’s an eye icon above the table to press, then scroll and select or deselect the nutrient columns of interest. There’s currently around 30 nutrient columns and 247 foodstuff included. The columns can be sorted ascending or descending by clicking once or twice on their headers. There are selectboxes above the table, if only some specific food categories want to be viewed.

Information(i) about the RDA values is located below the table.

Nutrition per 2000 kcal, as multiples of RDA

(i) RDA is the daily amount of a nutrient that some experts have determined to meet the requirements of about 98% of the population, in each age and sex category. In the calculation for this table, the RDA values for adult women have been used, except for iron. These are the RDA values used: Fiber 28 g, Potassium 2600 mg, Sodium 1500 mg, Magnesium 320 mg, Calcium 1000 mg, Iron 8 mg, Vitamin K 90 µg, Vitamin C 75 mg, Vitamin A RAE 700 µg, Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) 15 mg, (Gamma-tocopherol 15 mg), Folate 400 µg, Thiamin (vit B1) 1.1 mg, Riboflavin (vit B2) 1.1 mg, Niacin (vit B3) 14 mg, Pantothenic acid (vit B5) 5 mg, Vitamin B6 1.3 mg, Vitamin B12 2.4 µg, Choline 425 mg, Vitamin D 15 µg, Selenium 55 µg, Zinc 8 mg, Phosphorus 700 mg, Copper 0.9 mg, Manganese 1.8 mg, Protein 46 g, Water 2700 g. The RDAs are not the same as the optimal amount of nutrients, as the optimal amount might in many cases be higher then the RDAs. It’s good to choose foods with rich nutrition compared to their energy content.