Food intake rate

What Size Dish?


Serving size is the amount of food eaten in the same group that contains substances that are similar and interchangeable.

What shapes the dish?

Type One Dish Meals

Cereals and cereal products and potatoes :

• ½ cup white rice
• ½ cup noodles / vermicelli / cake tiau / pasta
• 1 slice of wholemeal bread
• ½ chapatis (small size)
• 1 cup rice porridge
• ½ cup of breakfast cereal
• 1 medium size potato seed
• 3 pieces of biscuits / cream

Vegetables :

• ½ cup of dark green leafy vegetables
• ½ cup fruit or tuber vegetables
• ½ cup of other vegetables

Fruits • ½ medium size guava seeds
• 1 slice of papaya / watermelon / pineapple
• 1 medium banana / orange / pear / apple
• ½ cup fruit juice (unsweetened)

Milk and Dairy Products :
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup buttermilk
• 1 slice of cheese
• * Low-fat dairy is encouraged

Eggs, meat, poultry, fish and nuts :
• 1 medium size chicken drumstick
• 1 whole mackerel
• 2 pieces of lean meat of matchbox
• 5 tablespoons anchovy headless
• ½ cup dried beans
• 4 tablespoons shrimp with skin
• 1 slice of tofu
• 1 piece of tempeh
• 1 egg medium size (grade C)

Ref: Healthy Lifestyle Campaign 1997, Healthy Eating: Manual Prime and Supportive Messages, Ministry of Health Malaysia