Do You Know Your Dietary Daily Values (DVs)?
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This article is from the Health Articles series.
Do You Know Your Dietary Daily Values (DVs)?
Daily Values is a new dietary reference term that appears on the new food label. It is a combination of two sets of dietary references, the DRVs or Daily Reference Values and the Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs). Daily Values should be used as a tool to help identify the relative contribution of a nutrient in a single serving to the diet as a whole.
% DV does not represent the percentage of calories from that nutrient in the product.
Daily Values for adults and children 4 or more years of age are as follows:
| Calories | 2000 |
| Total Fat | less than 65 grams |
| Saturated Fat | less than 20 grams |
| Cholesterol | less than 300 milligrams |
| Sodium | less than 2,400 milligrams |
| Potassium | 3,500 milligrams |
| Total Carbohydrates | 300 grams |
| Sugars | - |
| Dietary Fiber | 25 grams |
| Protein | 50 grams |
| Vitamin A | 875 micrograms Retinol Equivalents |
| Beta Carotene | 5 milligrams |
| Vitamin C | 60 milligrams |
| Calcium | 1000 milligrams |
| Iron | 18 milligrams |
| Vitamin E | 9 milligrams alpha tocopherol equivalents |
| Phosphorus | 1000 milligrams |
| Thiamin B-1 | 1.5 milligrams |
| Riboflavin B-2 | 2000 |
| Niacin B-3 | 20 milligrams |
| Vitamin B-6 | 2.0 milligrams |
| Vitamin B-12 | 6 micrograms (Ug) |
| Folic Acid | 400 micrograms (Ug) |
| Vitamin D | 6.5 micrograms (Ug) |
| Vitamin K | 80 micrograms (Ug) |
| Biotin | 300 micrograms (Ug) |
| Pantothenic Acid | 10 milligrams |
| Magnesium | 400 milligrams |
| Zinc | 15 milligrams |
| Copper | 2 milligrams |
| Manganese | 2 milligrams |
| Selenium | 70 micrograms (Ug) |
| Fluoride | 2.8 milligrams |
| Iodine | 150 micrograms (Ug) |
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