Plant sources of vitamin A and human nutrition: Renewed strategies

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 89-91

  Solomons, Noel W ^a  

^a Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment Aging and Metabolism Guatemala   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; RETINOL;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BREAST MILK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HIGHER PLANT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDONESIA; LACTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SHORT SURVEY; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0029889661     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03877.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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