Estimation of daily intake of 8 kinds of vitamins, 9 kinds of amino acids and 3 kinds of minerals.

According to the market basket studies proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the given kinds of foodstuffs were purchased on October, 1984, from the selected foodshops at the nine points of Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Kofu, Nagano, Osaka, Wakayama, Matsue, and Kitakyusyu and the foodstuffs collected were classified into eight groups. Each group was analyzed with reference to the 20 kinds of food additives. Each analytical value in the present work was represented as the sum of the amount of the components added to the foodstuffs artificially and the components included in the foodstuffs naturally as elements. The intake of each foodadditive per capita per day was follows; 0.074mg of retinol, 0.36mg of thiamine, 0.43mg of riboflavin, 16.5mg of ascorbic acid, 1.48mg of nicotinic acid, 0.65mg of nicotinamide, 2.82mg of pantothenate, 14.98mg of total tocopherol, 166.6mg of threonine, 344.1mg of alanine, 230.9mg of valine, 80.6mg of methionine, 187.6mg of isoleusine, 247.8mg of phenylalanine, 260.3mg of lysine, 145.5mg of histidine, 285.1mg of arginine, 5.69 mg of iron, 147.0mg of magnesium and 3.41mg of alminium.