FAT SOURCES IN THE BELGIAN DIET

Food consumption data from the Belgian Interuniversity Research on Nut rition and Health study (n = 11,302) were analyzed with regard to fat intake, Intakes of macronutrients were compared between several subgro ups in the population, The major objective was to quantify the contrib ution of food groups and individual food items to the intake of total fat, polyunsaturated (PUFA), monounsaturated (MUFA) and saturated (SFA ) fat in the Belgian diet, These results are compared to nutritional g uidelines and Italian, US and Dutch data, Major sources of fat are but ter (16% of the total intake) and baking margarine (8%), Major sources of SFA are butter (24%) and cheese (9%), of MUFA butter (13%) and bak ing margarine (9%), and of PUFA diet margarine (23%) and mayonnaise(11 %).