Food Balance Sheets

Korean Rural Economic Institute (KREI), 2004. Food balance sheet (in Korean). KREI Report. 123-176. 

Seafood consumption data were cited from FAO Food Balance Sheets, FAO Statistics... 

Wynder and Shigematsu (15) were the first to suggest that nutritional factors in general and specifically differences in fat intake may be responsible for the international variation in colon cancer incidence. Subsequent descriptive epidemiologic studies have found a strong positive association between colon cancer mortality or incidence in different countries and per capita availability in national diets of total fat (4,16) and of animal fat, estimated from food balance sheets. Such international correlations may be supportive of a hypothesis, but they should be interpreted with caution because the dietary data were based not on actual intake information but on food disappearance data. 

Note Based on food balance sheets for 132 countries (see... 

FAQ (Food and Agricultural Organisation), Food Balance Sheets. FAO, Rome (1984). 

World Health Organization. Fish and Fishery Products. World apparent Consumption Based on Food Balance Sheets (1961-1993). Italy WHO, Rome, 1996. 

New studies based on the national food balance sheets of the UN s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) suggest that nearly half of the world s people - especially those in the poorer countries of South and Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa - have insufficient zinc in their food supply (IPCS 2001). 

I,aurenti G (comp.) (2007). 1961-2003 Fish and Fishery Products World Apparent Consumption Statistics Based on Food Balance Sheets. FAO Fisheries Circular 821, rev. 8. FAO, Rome. 

Dietary exposure assessments per capita are described in Table 9. Average daily estimates of intakes of chlorite and chlorate ranged from 0.2 to 0.7 pg/kg bw and from 0.1 to 0.6 pg/kg bw, respectively. The use of food balance sheets may give an overestimate of average exposure, but underestimate intake for individuals with high intakes of food additives. For this reason, further assessments were conducted, based on individual food consumption data. 

FAO. In Food balance sheets. Food and Agriculture Organization of the Uniited Nations, Statistics division 2014. http //faostat3.fao.Org/download/FB/FBS/E [accessed online 11/2014]. 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome (1971) Food Balance Sheets, 1964-66 Average. 

P/E ratios can be calculated easily from disaggregated data on protein supply listed in FAO s food balance sheets. For the latest averages see http //apps.fao.org. 

During the 1990s Egypt s imports amounted to more than Vjofitscereal consumption and to 90% of its cooking oil. The country s food balance sheets can be seen at http //apps.fao.org. 

The energy or protein average calculated from food balance sheets must be considerably above the actual per capita requirements in order to compensate for food losses at retail and household level and for unequal access to food (both among and within families). 

These mean supply rates are according to aggregate food balance sheets prepared by the FAO see http //apps.fao.org. Actual dietary intakes are considerably lower. 

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