Contribution of the Title III Meals Program to Nutrient Intake of Participants

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the contribution of the Title I11 meal program to the overall nutrient intake of participants. There were 69 participants in the study with a mean age of 74 years. Overall nutrient intake of the partici ants was adequate with mean intakes of all nutrients e x c e e k 67% of the R D A Black subjects consumed more dp carbohy rates, fiber, calcium, iron, thiamine, niacin, riboflavin, and vitamin C at lunch than did white subjects; however, these differences were due to different consumption patterns reported for "home" lunches rather than differences in lunches eaten at the meal site. Lunches supplied at least 33% of the total daily nutrient intake regardless of whether it was a meal program lunch or a home lunch.

Food Practices, Service Use, and Dietary Quality in Elderly Blacks

“…Older black women were found to consume less protein, calcium, iron, thiamin, and riboflavin than older white women, and older black men consumed less iron, thiamin and vitamin C than white men (Todhunter, 1976). Among congregate mealsite participants, blacks consumed less calcium, thiamin, iron, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, niacin, and vitamin C than whites, but most nutrients were close to the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) (Holahan and Kunkel, 1987). Similarly, a study of the elderly in their 60s, 80s and 100s…”