Help with this Human Nutrition question Eating Plan B 1 Days

Help with this Human Nutrition question

Eating Plan B (1 Day’s Intake)

6 ounces grapefruit juice

2 scrambled eggs

1 ounce cheddar cheese

20 ounces coffee

2 ounces soy milk

1 cup fresh raspberries

1 cup cantaloupe

1 honey oat granola bar

1 cup vanilla yogurt

6 ounces grilled salmon

10 cooked asparagus spears

1 cup broccoli

4 ounces white wine

4 ounces blueberry juice + seltzer water

20 barbecue flavor soy crisps

1 cup wasabi peas

1 3” x 3” spanakopita

1 cup spinach

¹/₃ cup feta cheese

¼ cup black olives

5 grape tomatoes

3 Tbsp. oil & vinegar dressing

6 ounces white wine

¼ cup mixed nuts

1 cup vanilla ice cream

Eating Plan C (1 Day’s Intake)

6 5”-diameter pancakes

¹/₃ cup pure maple syrup

¼ pound of bacon

2 scrambled eggs

6 ounces orange juice

8 ounces 1% fat milk

2 slices of unseeded Italian bread

3 ounces of thinly sliced pastrami

2 Tbsp. spicy brown mustard

2 ounces of cheddar cheese

2 cups of Lucky Charms cereal

1 ½ cups 1% fat milk

6 ounces beef tenderloin

1 ½ cups mashed potatoes

1 cup cooked corn

1 cup cooked peas

10 ounces Seltzer water

2 ounces cheddar cheese

4.   a.   Which of these eating plans supplies enough calcium, iron, magnesium, and zinc?

b.   What changes in these eating plans are needed to provide adequate amounts of each of these nutrients?

Solution

a. according to the eating plans above eating plan b supplies enough calcium, iron , magnesium and zinc as the intakes of plan b are spinacjh, salmon, eggs, peas, coffee cantoloupe, milk which are rich in the iron and magnesium contents when compared to bread , potatoes, pan cakes in plan c.

b. in plan b we have to give up cheddar cheese , feta cheese, seltzer water, grape juice etc. and in plan c we have to give up bread, cheese pastrami, mashed potatoes etc to provide adequate amount of each of these nutrients.