Plant-based Diet and Iron Deficiency Anemia in Sundanese Adolescent Girls at Islamic Boarding Schools in Indonesia

Table 1

Average daily nutritional intake, molar ratios, and hematological characteristics of adolescent girls (N = 176).

Variables	Mean ± SD
Age (years)	15.21 ± 1.76
Nutritional intake
Energy (kcal/day)	1365.36 ± 580.04
Protein (g/day)	30.22 ± 12.13
Iron (mg/day)	6.59 ± 2.87
Heme-iron (mg/day)	1.52 ± 1.65
Meat, fish, poultry (MFP) (mg/day)	1.16 ± 1.67
Nonheme iron (mg/day)	5.05 ± 2.45
Phytic acid (mg/day)	606.36 ± 274.94
Vitamin C (mg/day)	6.34 ± 12.07
Molar ratio
Phytic acid:iron	8.72 ± 4.32
Vitamin C:iron	0.03 ± 0.05
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	12.29 ± 1.39
Hematocrit (%)	37.72 ± 3.35
Erythrocyte (10^6/µL)	4.75 ± 0.41
MCV (fL)	79.83 ± 7.75
MCH (pg)	26.04 ± 3.18
MCHC (g/dL)	32.54 ± 1.36