Trace nutrients. Selenium in British food

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Abstract
The amount of Se in nationally representative samples of prepared and cooked groups of foods [for human consumption], and in a variety of raw individual foods, was determined fluorimetrically. The average British diet was calculated to provide approximately 60 .mu.g Se/day, of which half was derived from cereals and cereal products and another 40% from meat and fish. Milk, table fats, fruit and vegetables provided little or no Se. Individual foods which were particularly rich in Se (> 0.2 mg/kg) included bread-making and wholemeal flours, kidney, fatty fish, Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa) and several other varieties of nut. Breast milk and other foods for babies (except some cereal products) contained little Se. The total intake, and the amounts of Se in major foods, were lower than in most other studies. This is probably the result of the comparatively low levels of this element in British soil.

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