Table 1 Foods with high nutritional fitness (NF) across diets.

From: Nutritionally recommended food for semi- to strict vegetarian diets based on large-scale nutrient composition data

Food category

Food

Diet with high nutritional fitness

Protein-rich

Whole milk

O (0.86)

Nonfat dry milk, reduced fat milk, 1%-fat milk

O (0.83)

Snapper

C (0.83)

Ocean perch

C (0.80)

Roe

C (0.70), M (0.79)

Fat-rich

Almond

C (0.97), O (0.97), V (0.97), M (0.99)

Chia seed

C (0.87), O (0.95), V (0.98), M (0.93)

Dried pumpkin and squash seed kernels

C (0.84), O (0.87), V (0.87)

Pork separable fat

C (0.80)

Dried black walnut

O (0.71), V (0.77)

Carbohydrate-rich

Cherimoya

C (0.96), O (0.91), V (0.72), M (0.89)

Frozen immature lima bean

O (0.72), V (0.85)

Frozen green pea

O (0.76), V (0.80)

Tangerine

C (0.76), V (0.78), M (0.77)

Full-fat soy flour

V (0.76)

Low-macronutrient

Ultraviolet-treated portabella

O (0.87), V (0.94)

Maitake

O (0.88), V (0.87)

Dried shiitake

O (0.87)

Red cabbage

C (0.74), O (0.71), M (0.83)

Chanterelle

O (0.80), V (0.76)

  1. We here consider four different diets, control, ovo-lacto vegetarian, vegan, and methionine-restricted diets. For the definition of these diets, refer to the main text. In each food category, we sort foods by their highest NFs among the four diets and list only the top 5 cases (in the protein-rich category, several milk products with similar highest NFs are listed together in the same row for visual clarity). Each of these foods has NF > 0.7 in at least one diet. For each food, we specify the diets that give NF > 0.7 (C, control; O, ovo-lacto vegetarian; V, vegan; M, methionine-restricted; the specific value of NF is presented in parentheses beside each diet).
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