1. Wasted Food, Wasted Nutrients: Nutrient Loss from Wasted Food in the United States and Comparison to Gaps in Dietary Intake 
Marie L. Spiker, MSPH, RD, Hazel A.B. Hiza, PhD, RD, Sameer M. Siddiqi, Roni A. Neff, PhD, ScM 
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 
Volume 117, Issue 7, Pages e22 (July 2017)
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2. Figure 1
Diagram of data sources and calculations used to generate estimates of nutrient loss in the US food supply in 2012, and locations of results within the article. aLAFA=Loss Adjusted Food Availability.18 bSR-28=National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 28 (US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Nutrient Data Laboratory). cDRI=Dietary Reference Intakes.26 dWWEIA=What We Eat in America.25
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3. Figure 2
Equivalent number of recommended intakes embedded in daily population-level nutrient loss in the US food supply in 2012, expressed as a percentage of the 2012 US adult population (age 20 years and older). aExample interpretation: In 2012, the amount of iron embedded in food wasted at the retail and consumer levels each day (per population) was equivalent to the Recommended Dietary Allowance for iron for 92 million adult women (age 19 to 30 years) or 208 million adult men (age 19 to 30 years), which averages to 150 million adults, which was 66% of the adult population. bThe US adult population on July 1, 2012, was 226,456,000 people.27 (NOTE: Information from this figure is available online at as part of a PowerPoint presentation.)
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4. Figure 3
Amount of nutrient loss per capita per day in the US food supply in 2012, expressed as a percentage of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or Adequate Intake (AI) for each nutrient for adults ages 19 to 30 years. aExample interpretation: Food wasted at the retail and consumers levels each day in 2012 contained an amount of calcium equivalent to 29% of the calcium RDA for adult women and men (age 19 to 30 years). Twenty-nine percent represents the average between the equivalent percentage of the adult women’s RDA and the equivalent percentage of the adult men’s RDA. bThe RDA for iron differs greatly between men and women; daily per capita iron loss in the US food supply is equivalent to 30% of the adult women’s RDA and 66% of the adult men’s RDA, which averages to 48%. For other nutrients shown, differences between the RDA for men and women were not as large. (NOTE: Information from this figure is available online at as part of a PowerPoint presentation.)
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