Hello,
I entered chicken breast 150g in the application and the vitamin K value showed up as 514 mcg = 429% of the Recommended Daily Allowance. Isn't that an error?
Thank you.
Good observation, congratulations :-) This is a discussion question because European nutritional databases define the vitamin K content in some foods (including chicken meat) as significantly lower than American ones, and indeed markedly so. In the ZOF application, we use a global average, which for some nutritional values can show considerable deviation from the standard in a given geographical area. In the case of chicken meat, it mainly concerns the fact that nutritional therapy on the American continent does not recommend this type of meat during anticoagulant therapy precisely due to the high vitamin K content, whereas in Europe, due to different tabulated values, chicken meat is commonly allowed.
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Mgr. Martin Jelinek
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Nutrition educator, lecturer, and author of the educational system and the ZOF learning application.
Mgr. Martin Jelínek has been systematically involved in nutrition education since 1999. He is the founder of ATAC, the educational company behind NutriCourses, and the author of an educational system focused on nutrition, healthy lifestyle, and the practical application of nutrition knowledge.
He graduated from the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno. Throughout his professional career, he has combined nutrition, education, and the practical application of acquired knowledge. His educational system also includes the ZOF (Zone of Optimal Functioning) learning application, where students turn theory into practical work with meal plans.
In 2007, he launched the first intake of a six-month course focused on the education of nutrition advisors. Over time, this course became the foundation for the further development of the educational system and a range of specialised courses.