VITAMIN-E CONTENT OF FOODS
VITAMIN-E CONTENT OF FOODS
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DOI:
10.1093/jn/40.3.367
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发表时间:
1950-01-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
SWANSON, WJ
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作者:
HARRIS, PL;QUAIFE, ML;SWANSON, WJ
Commonly used foods, typified by those available in Rochester, N. Y., were chemically analyzed for their total tocopherol and alpha-tocopherol content. On the basis of the results obtained, the avg. per capita consumption of vit. E in the United States was estimated as 14 mg. of d, alpha-tocopherol (13 I.U.) daily. The richest dietary sources of vit. E are certain of the vegetable oils. Cereal products and eggs are next in order of nutritional importance. Vegetables supply very little of the daily intake of vit. E, both because of their low concn. of total tocopherols and because in most instances a large portion of the tocopherols present are the relatively inactive, non-alpha-tocopherols. Animal products, similarly, are rather poor sources of vit. E because of their quite low and variable concns. of total tocopherol, practically all of which, however, is alpha-tocopherol. The tocopherol concn. in animal products is probably directly proportional to the level of vit. E in the diet of the animals from which they come and, inversely, to the severity of processing and length of storage to which they are subjected. The value of cereal products as a source of vit. E certainly depends upon the extent and severity of the milling process which they undergo prior to consumption.