The sum total for consumption of these spices in NewZealand amounted to 0.14 kg/person/year as a population-wide average. Adding available Customs data for
all other spices gives a per capita figure of 0.364 kg/ person/year, or about 1 g per day. Data on high-intake consumers of spices in NZ are not available. As a surrogate,
the US 97.5% adult intake of all spices is 0.13 g/ kg body weight/day (presented at the Codex CXPR meeting, 1999), which is roughly equivalent to about 2.8
kg/person/year.