Green and yellow vegetables can maintain body stores of vitamin A in Chinese children

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1069-1076

  Tang, Guangwen ^a   Gu, Xiu Fang ^b   Hu, Shan Ming ^b   Xu, Qing Mei ^b   Qin, Jian ^b   Dolnikowski, Gregory G ^b   Fjeld, Carla R ^b   Gao, Xiang ^b   Russell, Robert M ^b   Yin, Shi An ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

China; Deuterated vitamin A; Green yellow vegetables; Kindergarten children; Total body vitamin A stores

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; RETINOL;

ARTICLE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; KINDERGARTEN; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0344146430     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/70.6.1069     Document Type: Article

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