Why is there no number?

There is no figure here that can be given with confidence, so none is given. The normal range for questions like this is wide anyway — a few minutes with a paediatrician or dentist usually settles it.

What if my child’s age or country is not covered?

It will say plainly that this age is not covered, rather than borrow figures from another age or another country. How far a standard reaches is set by whoever published it, and stretching it gives a placing that is simply wrong.

intake / Nutrition

Nutrient reference intake lookup

Reference intakes for this age, nutrient by nutrient.

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Step by step

One nutrient usually has several kinds of reference value — estimated average requirement, recommended intake, adequate intake, tolerable upper level — and they are not the same thing, so they cannot be folded into a single “recommended” figure. Type and unit are reproduced as the source gives them.

What this number cannot tell you

These are dietary reference intakes, not laboratory results. They cannot tell you whether a child is deficient — that is a blood concentration, an entirely different measurement. Nothing here calculates a supplement dose.

Common questions

Why is there no number?: There is no figure here that can be given with confidence, so none is given. The normal range for questions like this is wide anyway — a few minutes with a paediatrician or dentist usually settles it.
What if my child’s age or country is not covered?: It will say plainly that this age is not covered, rather than borrow figures from another age or another country. How far a standard reaches is set by whoever published it, and stretching it gives a placing that is simply wrong.

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