Influence of Revision of Food Composition Tables on Results of Nutritional Survey

Abstract

Recently, food composition tables was revised in Japan. Therefore, comparison of results of nurtitional survey in the past and those of recent became difficult. So, the authors made base the nutritional calculations using the same data on the old food composition tables and the new food composition tables. Little differences were found between the both results of calculation in cases of energy, protein, lipid, non-fibrous carbohydrate and calcium. However, serious differences were found in cases of vitamin A, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, niacin and iron

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