Corn is the cereal with the highest production worldwide and is used for human
consumption, livestock feed, and fuel. Various food technologies are currently used for …

Iron is one of the essential mineral elements for the human body and this nutrient deficiency
is a worldwide public health problem. Iron is essential in oxygen transport, participates in …

Adoption of the recommended breast-feeding and complementary feeding behaviors and
access to the appropriate quality and quantity of foods are essential components of optimal …

A proposed nutrient composition for fortified processed complementary foods (FPCF) is
developed based on the other papers in this publication, which consider a number of factors …

Iron deficiency anemia affects a significant part of the human population. Due to the unique
properties of plant ferritin, food enrichment with ferritin iron seems to be a promising strategy …

The earliest studies of food iron absorption employing biosynthetically incorporated
radioisotopes were published in the 1950s. Wheat flour has been fortified with iron in …

abstract Iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional deficiency in humans. Not all
dietary ingested iron, heme or nonheme, will be available to absorption and negative …

Several strategies appear suitable to improve iron and zinc bioavailability from fortified
maize, and fortification per se will increase the intake of bioavailable iron and zinc. Corn …

Background Approximately 800 million women and children have anaemia, a condition
thought to cause almost 9% of the global burden of years lived with disability. Around half …

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