Scottish Dietary Targets for 2005
The Scottish Diet Action Plan (SDAP) made 71 recommendations and confirmed the Dietary Targets for 2005.
The Scottish Executive Health Department and the Food Standards Agency Scotland established a Working Group on Monitoring Scottish Dietary Targets in April 2003. This group was made up of academic, research and health experts.
The Working Group's remit was to investigate and report ways of assessing progress made towards the Scottish Dietary Targets to date and to advise on surveillance requirements beyond 2005.
Reports
The Scottish Executive will use these findings to report on the progress made to implement the SDAP recommendations, and upon how Scotland 's diet measures up against the Scottish Dietary Targets in 2005.
Scottish Dietary Targets for 2005
Fruit & vegetables |  | Average intake to double to more than 400 grams per day. |
Bread |  | Intake to increase by 45 % from present daily intake of 106 grams, mainly using wholemeal and brown breads. |
Breakfast Cereals |  | Average intake to double from the present intake of 17 grams per day. |
Fats |  | Average intake of total fat to reduce from 40.7% to no more than 35% of food energy. Average intake of saturated fatty acids to reduce from 16.6% to no more than 11% of food energy. |
Salt |  | Average intake to reduce from 163 mmol per day to 100 mmol per day. |
Sugar |  | Average intake of non-milk extrinsic (NME) sugars in adults not to increase. Average intake of NME sugars in children to reduce by half i.e. to less than 10% of total energy. |
|  | The proportion of mothers breastfeeding their babies for the first 5 weeks of life should increase to more than 50% from the present incidence of around 30%. |
Total Complex Carbohydrates |  | Increase average non- sugar carbohydrates intake by 25% from 124 grams per day, through increased consumption of fruit and vegetables, bread, breakfast cereals, rice and pasta and through an increase of 25% in potato consumption. |
Fish |  | White fish consumption to be maintained at current levels. Oily fish consumption to double from 44 grams per week to 88 grams per week. |
External Links
- The Food Standards Agency Scotland was launched on 3 April 2000. It's commitment is to improve food safety and standards in Scotland and protect the health of Scotland's population in relation to food