. Page Eleven Jonathan Weisgall January 21, 1982 are based upon the 236-gram per coconut figure given In Bowes and C.P. Church’s Food Values of Portions ComnoI Used (Llpplncott, New York and PhllawhH2~~~, pag~7), whjch . Is an authoritative nutritional text. Estimated t!arshalleseDaily Diet ,? Item Estimated No. Grams 7 reen drinking coconut this iS Pollock’s figure--my estimate would be 2 drinkfng coconuts per person per day) 236 g. 1.8 grated coconuts used in rice and rice porridge (using Pollock’s estimte of between 3-15 nuts per household perineal. I calculate the mean of 9 nuts per 10 persons to be 0.9 nuts x 2 meals, or 1.8 coconuts per person per day ) 425 g. (1.8 X 236 g.) 0.5 “iu” from coconut embryo 118 g. (0.5 X ounces of “jokaro” (this is rqy approximation) 280 g. (10 x 28 g.) 1 10 ‘~o;nces of “jokanmi” ~mY—— approximation) Total average daily grams of consumed coconut 236 56 g. (2 x28 9.) g.) 1 9115 g. As may be readily seen from my analysis of the estimated Marshallese da’ lY diet, the figure of 1,115 grams of coconut per person is more than three times the estimate provided by Micronesia I am rather curious how they arrived at their 300Legal Services with Marshallese on Utlrik gram per capita rate. After -1ived for two years and subsisting on a Marshallese diet, this dietary estimate is as close as 1 can come to an approximation of the daily (cent’d.) “+&-7-/ /’ #