# Energy and Macro Reference

> The Energy and Macro Reference carries 7 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 5 to 35 percent, read 17 October 2026.

Strength Standards Calc · https://strengthstandardscalc.com/datasets/energy-and-macro-reference/ · computed 2026-10-18

**Range of the published figures:** 5 to 35 % (range 5 to 35 %; 7 published figures; 2 of 15 sources read publish one).

2 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 17 October 2026.

## By reference

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| reference protein-upper-limit-percent-of-energy-AMDR | 35 % | 35 to 35 % | 1 |
| reference saturated-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy | 10 % | 10 to 10 % | 1 |
| reference free-sugars-maximum-percent-of-energy | 10 % | 10 to 10 % | 1 |
| reference free-sugars-additional-benefit-threshold | 5 % | 5 to 5 % | 1 |
| reference total-fat-minimum-percent-of-energy | 15 % | 15 to 15 % | 1 |
| reference total-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy | 30 % | 30 to 30 % | 1 |
| reference protein-sufficient-percent-of-energy | 15 % | 15 to 15 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Eat For Health (NHMRC) macronutrient balance](https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/macronutrient-balance) | 35 % | protein-upper-limit-percent-of-energy-AMDR | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 30 % | total-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 15 % | total-fat-minimum-percent-of-energy | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 15 % | protein-sufficient-percent-of-energy | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 10 % | saturated-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 10 % | free-sugars-maximum-percent-of-energy | 2026-10-17 |
| [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) | 5 % | free-sugars-additional-benefit-threshold | 2026-10-17 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (7)

- [Eat For Health (NHMRC) macronutrient balance](https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/macronutrient-balance), read 2026-10-17: "“to complement the AMDR for fat and carbohydrate”, giving an upper limit of 35% energy from protein."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "For adults, limiting the amount of total fat in the diet to 30% or less of total daily energy intake may help to prevent unhealthy weight gain in the adult population."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "Therefore, in adults, a minimum of 15% of the energy consumed per day should be from fat, up to 30% of total daily calories or more as described below."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "Protein intake at 10–15% of total daily energy intake is generally sufficient to meet the needs of adults (approximately 50–75 grams for a person of healthy body weight consuming about 2000 calories per day)."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "No more than 10% of total energy intake should come from saturated fat and no more than 1% of total energy from trans fat of any type."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "The consumption of free sugars should be limited to less than 10% of total daily energy intake, which is equivalent to 50 g (or about 12 level teaspoons) for a person of healthy body weight consuming about 2000 calories per day."
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet), read 2026-10-17: "Limiting further to 5% or less of total daily energy intake may provide additional health benefits."

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [Health Canada dietary reference intakes tables: reference values for macronutrients](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/dietary-reference-intakes/tables/reference-values-macronutrients.html), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Health Canada dietary reference intakes calculator](https://health-infobase.canada.ca/nutrition/dietary-reference-intakes-calculator/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [National Academies, Rethinking the AMDR for the 21st Century - description of the AMDR](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK610333/), read 2026-10-17: every candidate on the page was refused
- [National Academies, Rethinking the AMDR for the 21st Century - summary](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK610327/), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [National Academies publication record, Rethinking the AMDR (2024)](https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/27957), read 2026-10-03: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [NHS Eatwell Guide](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/the-eatwell-guide/), read 2026-09-26: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [NHS Better Health calorie counting](https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/lose-weight/calorie-counting/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK / SACN Dietary Reference Values for Energy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sacn-dietary-reference-values-for-energy), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [NHMRC Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand](https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/nutrient-reference-values-australia-and-new-zealand-including-recommended-dietary-intakes), read 2026-10-10: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [EFSA dietary reference values](https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/dietary-reference-values), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [Mifflin, St Jeor and Hill, a new predictive equation for resting energy expenditure (PubMed record)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2305711/), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [ODPHP current Dietary Guidelines for Americans](https://odphp.health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/dietary-guidelines/current-dietary-guidelines), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [British Heart Foundation, how many calories should I eat a day](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/nutrition/how-many-calories-should-i-eat-a-day), read 2026-10-17: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 15 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 13 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source for each breakdown it prices, in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 7 figures, never sentences; 23 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per jurisdiction per macronutrient: the authority's own reference range and energy requirement, quoted with its effective date, joined to the four published BMR equations (Mifflin-St Jeor, Harris-Benedict, Katch-McArdle, Henry/SACN). The figure nobody publishes is the SPREAD: how many calories apart the four equations put the same person, and how far apart the US, UK, AU/NZ, Canadian and EFSA reference ranges put the same macronutrient, so the calculator can show a band instead of a false single number.

## Sources

- [Health Canada dietary reference intakes tables: reference values for macronutrients](https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/food-nutrition/healthy-eating/dietary-reference-intakes/tables/reference-values-macronutrients.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Health Canada dietary reference intakes calculator](https://health-infobase.canada.ca/nutrition/dietary-reference-intakes-calculator/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [National Academies, Rethinking the AMDR for the 21st Century - description of the AMDR](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK610333/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [National Academies, Rethinking the AMDR for the 21st Century - summary](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK610327/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [National Academies publication record, Rethinking the AMDR (2024)](https://www.nationalacademies.org/publications/27957) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS Eatwell Guide](https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/the-eatwell-guide/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHS Better Health calorie counting](https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/lose-weight/calorie-counting/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK / SACN Dietary Reference Values for Energy](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sacn-dietary-reference-values-for-energy) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [NHMRC Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand](https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/nutrient-reference-values-australia-and-new-zealand-including-recommended-dietary-intakes) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Eat For Health (NHMRC) macronutrient balance](https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/macronutrient-balance) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [EFSA dietary reference values](https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/dietary-reference-values) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [WHO healthy diet fact sheet](https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [Mifflin, St Jeor and Hill, a new predictive equation for resting energy expenditure (PubMed record)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2305711/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [ODPHP current Dietary Guidelines for Americans](https://odphp.health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/dietary-guidelines/current-dietary-guidelines) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [British Heart Foundation, how many calories should I eat a day](https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/nutrition/how-many-calories-should-i-eat-a-day) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Energy and Macro Reference carries 7 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 5 to 35 percent, read 17 October 2026.
- 2 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 13 publish none, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference protein-upper-limit-percent-of-energy-AMDR: median 35 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference saturated-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy: median 10 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference free-sugars-maximum-percent-of-energy: median 10 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference free-sugars-additional-benefit-threshold: median 5 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference total-fat-minimum-percent-of-energy: median 15 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference total-fat-maximum-percent-of-energy: median 30 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.
- Energy and Macro Reference, reference protein-sufficient-percent-of-energy: median 15 percent across 1 source, read 17 October 2026.

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