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Appendix H: Notes on Nutritional Charts
Pages 360-362

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From page 360...
... The bar graphs provide what we think is a simple, but visually powerful, representation of the relative nutritional merits of two foods. With them nutritional figures between two foods (or between a food and a recommended daily allowance)
From page 361...
... For vitamin A, the values for Retinal Equivalents were derived using standard formulas to convert literature figures given for carotenoids,13-carotene, or International Units.
From page 362...
... sorghum are eaten as whole grains. Comparing nutritive values for the forms in which each is actually eaten creates an even more graphic picture of the nutritional superiority of the native grains.


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