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. 2022 Dec 22;13(6):2681-2685.
doi: 10.1093/advances/nmac092.

Dietary Energy

Susan B Roberts  1 , Valerie Flaherman  2
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Dietary Energy

Susan B Roberts et al. Adv Nutr. .
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The FDA of the US government allows dietary energy in Nutrition Fact panels on commercial foods to be calculated by any 1 of 5 methods. As illustrated for a single food example (a whole grain bread), these methods can give substantially different dietary energy values for the same micronutrient content.
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