The phrase "habitual intake" is correct and is often used in written English.
It usually refers to habits of consumption or intake of food, alcohol, drugs, etc. For example, "Studies have found that lower amounts of habitual intake of alcohol have positive health benefits."
We have chosen an amount of orange juice that closely resembles the habitual intake of soft drinks in young German adults.
Single-dose trials were also not included in the analysis because we wanted to report the effects of habitual intake of flavanol-containing cocoa products.
Two year-long studies provided 4 to 12 measurements and a total number of days sufficient to measure individual habitual intake.
This equals a habitual intake of sugar of about 96 g/d from SSB and fruit juice, being comparable to the consumed amount of sugar from orange juice in the present study.
Bao W, Song Y, Bertrand KA, Tobias DK, Olsen SF, Chavarro JE, Mills JL, Hu FB, Zhang C. Prepregnancy habitual intake of vitamin D from diet and supplements in relation to risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A prospective cohort study.
However, even objectively measured caloric intake showed only a moderate relation to future weight gain, implying that habitual caloric intake fluctuates over time and that it may be necessary to conduct serial assessments of habitual intake to better reflect the time-varying effects of caloric intake on weight gain.
Important to notice, effect of caffeine is shown to be related to the habitual intake levels.
This small dose have shown no effect on cognitive functioning due to the habitual intake level [20].
We investigated the influence of BT on the performance of a series of cognitive tasks, controlling for the habitual intake level of caffeine, complexity of the task and inter-participant differences in cognition.
Cassidy A, O'Reilly EJ, Kay C, et al: Habitual intake of flavonoid subclasses and incident hypertension in adults.
In an important study published in 2009, using only "habitual intake of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains" was enough to differentiate "eating well" from "not eating well" in a cohort of roughly 30,000 European adults.
