Dietary Analysis
Personal Dietary Analysis
I. Record Keeping
A. 24-Hour Dietary Recall
1. Recall every food and beverage that you have eaten over the past 24 hours. Recall how much you consumed and how it was prepared.
Sweet Potato pancakes, hot dogs, chicken curry with rice, black pepper beef with rice, crab cakes, coconut water, water.
a. How easy or difficult was it to recall your food intake?
I think it is pretty easy to recall since most of these food I cooked it by myself.
B. Three-Day Diet Record
1. Without changing your usual diet, keep a detailed log of your food and beverage intake for 3 days; one of the days should be Friday or Saturday. Use a separate log for each day.
Day 1 (Thursday)
Day 2 (Friday)
Day 3 (Saturday)
Breakfast = Yogurt, Vitamin D Milk
Breakfast = Cereal and Milk, yogurt
Breakfast = Dumplings, scrambled eggs, orange juice
Lunch = Fried Rice with spam and carrots, coconut water
Lunch = Hot dog, coffee
Lunch = Vegetables egg omelet, vanilla milkshake
Dinner = Noodles with beef, orange juice, vanilla ice cream
Dinner = Chicken curry with rice, Ice tea
Dinner = Stir-fried zucchini, coconut water, crab cakes
II. Analysis
Using nutritional analysis software, analyze your daily food intakes and answer questions in Part III of this activity. Keep the record on fi le for future applications.
A. Computer-Generated Dietary Analysis
Load the software into the computer, or log on to software website.
2. Choose the DRIs or related nutrient standard from the inside back cover, based on your life stage, sex, height, and weight.
3. Enter the information from the 3-day food intake record. Be sure to enter each food and drink and the specific amounts.
4. The software program will give you the following results:
a. The appropriate RDA (or related standard) for each nutrient
b. The total amount of each nutrient and the kilocalories consumed for each day
c. The percentage intake compared with the standard amount for each nutrient
I. Record Keeping
A. 24-Hour Dietary Recall
1. Recall every food and beverage that you have eaten over the past 24 hours. Recall how much you consumed and how it was prepared.
Sweet Potato pancakes, hot dogs, chicken curry with rice, black pepper beef with rice, crab cakes, coconut water, water.
a. How easy or difficult was it to recall your food intake?
I think it is pretty easy to recall since most of these food I cooked it by myself.
B. Three-Day Diet Record
1. Without changing your usual diet, keep a detailed log of your food and beverage intake for 3 days; one of the days should be Friday or Saturday. Use a separate log for each day.
Day 1 (Thursday)
Day 2 (Friday)
Day 3 (Saturday)
Breakfast = Yogurt, Vitamin D Milk
Breakfast = Cereal and Milk, yogurt
Breakfast = Dumplings, scrambled eggs, orange juice
Lunch = Fried Rice with spam and carrots, coconut water
Lunch = Hot dog, coffee
Lunch = Vegetables egg omelet, vanilla milkshake
Dinner = Noodles with beef, orange juice, vanilla ice cream
Dinner = Chicken curry with rice, Ice tea
Dinner = Stir-fried zucchini, coconut water, crab cakes
II. Analysis
Using nutritional analysis software, analyze your daily food intakes and answer questions in Part III of this activity. Keep the record on fi le for future applications.
A. Computer-Generated Dietary Analysis
Load the software into the computer, or log on to software website.
2. Choose the DRIs or related nutrient standard from the inside back cover, based on your life stage, sex, height, and weight.
3. Enter the information from the 3-day food intake record. Be sure to enter each food and drink and the specific amounts.
4. The software program will give you the following results:
a. The appropriate RDA (or related standard) for each nutrient
b. The total amount of each nutrient and the kilocalories consumed for each day
c. The percentage intake compared with the standard amount for each nutrient