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Phosphorus
Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)
Rich Food Sources

Written by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

Natural Food Sources Containing Phosphorus

Brewer's yeast, sardines, milk, cheese, sardines.

Phosphorus Nutrition Benefits for the Body, Therapeutic Uses

General - Energizer; promotes bone health; necessary absorber for B Complex vitamins.

Therapeutic Uses for Phosphorus: May help in strengthening endurance.

Phosphorus Deficiency Symptoms

Loss of appetite, fatigue, bone pain, frequent infections.

Rich Food Sources, Phosphorus

Food Selection, Preparation Mode

Serving Size

Phosphorus Milligrams

Cornmeal, self-rising, degermed, enriched, yellow

1 cup

860

Milk, canned, condensed, sweetened

1 cup

774

Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, self-rising, enriched

1 cup

744

Oat bran, raw

1 cup

690

Snacks, trail mix, regular, with chocolate chips, salted nuts, seeds

1 cup

565

Fast Foods, biscuit, with egg and sausage

1 biscuit

562

Cheese sauce, prepared from recipe

1 cup

556

Milk, canned, evaporated, with added vitamin D

1 cup

512

Fish, salmon, sockeye, cooked, dry heat

1/2 fillet

491

Fast foods, pancakes with butter and syrup

2 pancakes

476

Fast foods, taco with beef, cheese and lettuce, hard shell

1 large

468

Fish, halibut, Atlantic and Pacific, cooked, dry heat

1/2 fillet

456

Leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, straight phosphate

1 tsp

456

Cheese, ricotta, part skim milk

1 cup

450

Duck, domesticated, meat only, cooked, roasted

1/2 duck

449

Barley, pearled, raw

1 cup

442

Soup, clam chowder, New England, canned, prepared with 2% milk

1 cup

429

Wheat flour, whole-grain

1 cup

428

Soybeans, mature cooked, boiled, without salt

1 cup

421

Bulgur, dry

1 cup

420

Chicken, broilers or fryers, giblets, cooked, simmered

1 cup

419

Phosphorus Daily Recommended Amount Milligrams (mg/d)

Infants & Children:

0 to 6 months old - 100 mg

7 to 12 mo.nths old - 275 mg

1 to 3 years old - 460 mg

4 to 8 years old - 500 mg

Males & Females:

9 to 18 years old - 1,250 mg

19 and older - 700 mg

Pregnancy:

14 to 18 years old - 1,250 mg

19 and older - 700 mg

Lactation:

14 to 18 years old - 1,250 mg

19 and older - 700 mg

 

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