Group: Specific Diets & Nutrition

Specific Diets & Nutrition
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conversion of vitamins from % to grams

tarab21
tarab21
Posts: 508
Joined: 2003/03/31
United States
2003/05/16, 03:09 PM
Hi,

I use the custom food feature quite often, but I usually have troubles when it comes to entering the amount of the vitamins/minerals, and other trace elements. They are generally listed on packages of food as a percentage, but Freetrainers asks you to enter a gram or miligram amount. Any idea how I could convert from percentage to gram amount?

Thanks!
Carivan
Carivan
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Joined: 2002/01/20
Canada
2003/05/16, 03:16 PM
I think the percentages on the ingredient list you are talking about, are the % of the RDA. You would have to know what the RDA is and then do the math for how many mgs or Grms regarding the weights. Sound like alot of work.

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tarab21
tarab21
Posts: 508
Joined: 2003/03/31
United States
2003/05/16, 06:49 PM
Yeah, sounds like a pain in the patoot.
Thanks for your reply