Define Nutritional Requirements of Fats and Oils during Pregnancy and Lactation?
ICMR (1990) recommends that linoleic acid requirements should be raised to 4.5 en% during pregnancy. This can be met from 30 g/d of oil which has >20% linoleic acid. Similarly, linoleic acid requirement during lactation rises to 5.7 en% which corresponds to 45 g oil intake which has > 20% of linoleic acid).