Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alexy, Ute
• Kersting, Mathilde
• Sichert-Hellert, Wolfgang
• Manz, Friedrich
• Schöch, Gerhard

Titel

Macronutrient intake of 3- to 36-month-old German infants and children: results of the DONALD study

Ist Teil von

• Annals of nutrition and metabolism, 1999-01, Vol.43 (1), p.14-22

Ort / Verlag

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger AG

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The intake of macronutrients (protein, fat, fatty acids, carbohydrates, added sugars, fiber) was assessed in 354 healthy German infants and children aged 3-36 months from 3-day weighed diet records. The intake of protein ranged between 7 and 14% of energy intake. Fat intake decreased from 3 months (breast-fed boys and girls, 48%; formula-fed boys/girls, 41/44%) to 12 months (boys/girls, 33/36%) due to the increasing consumption of commercial weaning foods, and then increased again up to 36 months (boys/girls, 40/43%). Intake of added sugars decreased during the first 12 months and then increased again, but only slightly exceeded the limit of 10%. Intake of dietary fiber was highest at the age of 1 year (boys/girls, 2.7/2.3 g/MJ). The macronutrient intake was in accordance with other German and European surveys, but deviated considerably from the respective recommendations.