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© 1992 Oxford University Press

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Foods Predictive of Nutrient Intake in Chinese Diet in Taiwan: I. Total Calories, Protein, Fat and Fatty Acids

MAY MEEI-SHYUAN LEE*, WEN-HARN PAN**,{dagger}, SU-LIN YU{dagger} and PO-CHAO HUANG{dagger}

*Department of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
{dagger}National Taiwan University Medical School Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

**Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115, ROC (Address for correspondence)

Lee M M-S (Departinent of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC), Pan W-H, Yu S-L and Huang P-C. Foods predictive of nutrient intake in Chinese diet in Taiwan: I. Total calories, protein, fat and fatty acids. International Journal of Epidemiology 1992; 21: 922–928.

Dietary consumption data obtained by food weighing for 539 households in Taiwan in 1980–1981 were used to search for foods predictive of nutrient intake. The average per capita nutrient intake in each household was calculated for total calories, protein, fat and fatty acids (saturated fatty acids, oleic acid and unsaturated fatty acids). Stepwise multiple regression analysis was carried out to reveal the relative importance of each of 405 food items in the dietary survey data for predicting nutrient intake. We found that as few as seven to 20 food items could account for a large proportion of the variability of macronutrient intake in this population. These lists of foods were the minimum needed to categorize an individual's nutrient intake for epidemiological studies in Taiwan. The types and amounts of cooking oils (important predictors of fat and calories) added to the dishes were found to vary from family to family, and should be considered in designing dietary questionnaires for Chinese in other societies.

Received 1 April 1992


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