Available and Used in the

Philippines

NUTRITION
TOOLS
 2012 Nutritional
Guidelines for
Filipinos
• Primary recommendations
to promote good health
through proper nutrition.
• They are simple statements
that give advice on the
consumption of foods and
food components for which
there are public health
concerns
2012 Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos
 2012
Nutritional
Guidelines
for Filipinos
 Daily Nutritional Guide
Pyramid
•Developed by nutrition
educators/experts as a qualitative
tool in planning nutritious diets
for the masses
•Foods containing high levels of
certain nutrients are grouped
together and the serving portions
are stated in household measures
LACTATING WOMEN
 Daily
Nutritional
Guide
Pyramid

1-6 YEARS OLD 7-12 YEARS OLD

 Daily
Nutritional
Guide
Pyramid

13-19 YEARS OLD ADULT

 Daily
Nutritional
Guide
Pyramid

ELDERLY PREGNANT WOMEN

 Pinggang Pinoy
• A new, easy-to-understand food
guide that uses a familiar food plate
model to convey the right food
group proportions on a per-meal
basis to meet the body's energy and
nutrient needs
• Pinggang Pinoy will answer the
question of how much you should
eat in one meal in order to be
healthy
 Pinggang Pinoy
•Also serves as a quick and easy
guide for determining how much
to eat per meal time
•Created by the Food and
Nutrition Research Institute
(FNRI) of DOST
 • The 10 Kumainments are
simple and easy to
remember guidelines that
10 Kumainments can be easily followed by
ordinary citizens to improve
their nutritional status.
Food Exchange List (FEL)
• A tool for quick estimation of
carbohydrates, protein and fat values not
only for diabetic diets, but for normal and
therapeutic diets as well.
• A grouping of common foods that have
practically the same amount of protein,
carbohydrate and fat
• Within a group, one food item can be
exchanged with another provided the
specified serving portion is followed
 Food Composition
Table (FCT)
• A nutrition tool which
provides information on the
chemical/ nutritional
composition of foods
• Widely used in variety of
areas: nutrition, public health
surveys, nutrition education,
dietetics and clinical practice,
nutritional epidemiology,
agricultural research, food
regulation and consumer
action programs
 • adopts the multi-level approach for setting nutrient
reference values to meet the needs of various
Philippine stakeholders for appropriate nutrient reference values
Dietary Reference • is for planning and assessing diets of healthy groups
Intakes (PDRI) and individuals
• is the collective term comprising reference value for
energy and nutrient levels of intakes
 Philippine Dietary Reference
Intakes (PDRI)

The components of PDRI are:

1. Estimated Average
Requirement (EAR)
2. Recommended
Energy/Nutrient Intake
(REI/RNI)
3. Adequate Intake (AI)
4. Tolerable Upper Intake Level
or Upper Limit (UL)
NUTRITION
TOOLS
Available and Used in
Other Countries
 Dietary
Guidelines for
Americans
• The Dietary Guidelines
provide science-based advice
to promote health and to
reduce the risk of chronic
diseases through diet and
physical activity
• The guidelines are designed
for professionals to help all
individuals ages 2 years and
older and their families
consume a healthy,
nutritionally adequate diet
 My
Pyramid
•Illustration could be
used to describe
concepts of variety,
moderation and
proportion
•Replaced by MyPlate
My Plate
• is the consumer-friendly food
guidance platform for creating
healthy eating solutions
• found at the ChooseMyPlate. gov
site
• the site offers a plethora of
practical advice, tips and tools for
all age groups
• You can track your eating, figure
out your BMI, look at pediatric
growth charts, see meal pattern
recommendations, find recipes,
watch videos, download
educational print materials and
more
 Food and Nutrition Labeling
Term Definition
Nutrient declaration a standardized statement or listing of the nutrient
content of food
Nutrition claim representation that states, suggests or implies that a food
has nutritional properties. 2 types: (a) nutrient content
claim; (b) comparative claim
Health claim any representation that states, suggests or implies that a
relationship exists between a food or a constituent of that
food and health. These include: (a) nutrient function
claim, (b) other function claim, (c) reduction disease claim
Food
Labels
 Nutrition
Facts
•A statement or information
on food labels indicating the
nutrient(s) and the quantity
of said nutrient found or
added in the processed foods
or food products
 • FNRI/DOST, 2019. Food Exchange List for
Meal Planning, 4th ed. Manila:
FNRI-DOST.
• FNRI/DOST, 2015. Philippine Dietary
Reference Intakes, Philippines, 2015 ed.
Manila: FNRI-DOST.
• Roth, R. A. and Wehrle, K. L. 2018.

References Nutrition & Diet Therapy. 12th edition.

USA: Cengage Learning.
• http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/index.php/9
4-pinggang-pinoy
• ttp://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/index.php/to
ols-and-standard/nutritional-guide-pyram
id#lactating
• http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/index.php/p
ublications/nutritional-handbooks
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YOU!

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