Sample Menu
Here’s a one-day menu of typical Volumetrics meals:
Breakfast
Frittata with part-skim mozzarella cheese and vegetables
1 cup cantaloupe
1 cup honeydew melon
8 oz. low-fat, 1% milk
Lunch
Autumn harvest pumpkin soup
Open-face roast beef sandwich
½ cup sugar-free chocolate pudding
1 clementine
Dinner
Fresh fruit and spinach salad with homemade orange-poppy seed dressing
Poached salmon with yogurt dill sauce
“Minted” broccoli
½ cup cooked brown rice
Snack
8 oz. low-fat strawberry yogurt
Nutrition
Here’s a breakdown of the nutritional content of a day of Volumetrics meals, alongside recommendations from the government’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Because this diet is highly individualized, these figures are approximations. Your actual intake will vary. Diet figures were supplied by Rolls’ lab.
| Volumetrics | Recommended | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 1,575 | Women | Men |
|
21-25: 2,000 26-50: 1,800 51+: 1,600 |
21-40: 2,400 41-60: 2,200 61+: 2,000 |
||
| Total Fat | 24% | 20%-35% | |
| Saturated | 9% | Less than 10% | |
| Trans | 0% | N/A | |
| Total Carbohydrates | 55% | 45%-65% | |
|
Sugars (total except as noted) |
30% | N/A | |
| Fiber | 28 g. | Women | Men |
|
19-30: 28 g. 31-50: 25 g. 51+: 22 g. |
19-30: 34 g. 31-50: 31 g. 51+: 28 g. |
||
| Protein | 23% | 10%-35% | |
| Sodium | 2,781 mg. | Under 2,300 mg., under 1,500 mg. for 51+ | |
| Potassium | 3,111 mg. | At least 4,700 mg. | |
| Calcium | 1,025 mg. |
19-50: 1,000 mg. 51+: 1,200 mg. |
|
| Vitamin B-12 | 2 mcg. | 2.4 mcg. | |
| Vitamin D | 3.7 mcg. | 15 mcg. | |
Recommendations apply to adults 19 and older except as noted. Recommended calories assume a sedentary lifestyle. g.: grams. mg.: milligrams. mcg.: micrograms. Because of rounding, protein, fat, and carbohydrate content may not add up to 100 percent.
Last updated by Angela Haupt | January 02, 2013
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