Fortifying brown bread with sodium iron EDTA, ferrous fumarate, or electrolytic iron does not affect iron status in South African schoolchildren

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 782-786

  Van Stuijvenberg, Martha E ^a   Smuts, Cornelius M ^a,b   Lombard, Carl J ^a   Dhansay, Muhammad A ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EDETATE IRON; EDETATE SODIUM; FERRITIN; FERROUS FUMARATE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; NICOTINIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; THIAMINE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSFERRIN; ZINC;

ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BREAD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUNTING SYNDROME; UNDERWEIGHT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 41549096500     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/138.4.782     Document Type: Article

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