Page Eleven Jonathan Weisgall January 23, 1982 are based upon the 236-gram per coconut figure given in Bowes and C.P. Church's Food Values of Portions Commonly Used (Lippincott, New York and Philadelphia: 12th edition, 1975, page 107), which is an authoritative nutritional text. Estimated Marshallese Daily Diet Item > Estimated No. Grams green drinking coconut this is Pollock's 236 g. figure--my estimate would be 2 drinking coconuts per person per day) 1.8 grated coconuts used in rice and rice porridge (using Pollock's estimate of between 3-15 nuts per 425 g. (1.8 x 236 g.) household per meal. 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) 0.5 10 "iu" from coconut 118 g. ounces of “jokaro" (this is 280 g. embryo (0.5 x 236 g.) my approximation) 2ounces of “jokamai" (my (10 x 2B g.) 56 g. approximation) (2 x 28 g.) Total average daily grams of consumed coconut 1,175 g. As may be readily seen from my analysis of the estimated Marshallese daily diet, the figure of 1,115 grams of coconut per person is more than three times the estimate provided by Micronesian Legal Services. I am rather curious how they arrived at their 300gram per capita rate. After having lived with Marshallese on Utirik for two years and subsisting on a Marshallese diet, this dietary estimate is as close as I can come to an approximation of the daily (cont‘d.) FoI i