Dietary Reference Intake Guidelines

Alcoholic drink equivalents of select beverages.

Dietary reference intake guidelines. The dietary reference intakes dris are developed and published by the institute of medicine iom. And renders authoritative judgments on the relationships among food intake nutrition and health. Department of agriculture and u s.

Federal government websites always use a gov or mil domain. The dietary reference intake dri is a system of nutrition recommendations from the institute of medicine iom of the national academies united states. Reference intakes are not meant to be targets.

The reference values include the estimated average intake ear. Government printing office december 2015. The dris represent the most current scientific knowledge on nutrient needs of healthy populations.

The gov means it s official. Federal nutrition and physical activity resources. Global dietary guidelines and dietary reference intakes dris country food based dietary guidelines nutrient reference intake north america belize food based dietary guidelines for.

Please note that individual requirements may be higher or lower than the dris. Energy proteins fats and digestible carbohydrates. Guidelines for diets with dietary reference intakes.

Unless the label says otherwise reference intakes are based on an average sized woman doing an average amount of physical activity. Dietary guidelines for americans 2010. They just give you a rough idea of how much energy you should be eating each day and how much fat sugar salt and so on.