Sweet potato β bioefficacy is enhanced by dietary fat and not reduced by soluble fiber intake in Mongolian gerbils

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-50

  Mills, Jordan P ^a   Tumuhimbise, Gaston A ^b   Jamil, Kazi M ^c   Thakkar, Sagar K ^d   Failla, Mark L ^d   Tanumihardjo, Sherry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; URONIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIGESTION; FAT INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; GERBIL; MALE; NONHUMAN; SWEET POTATO;

ANIMALS; BETA CAROTENE; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY FIBER; GERBILLINAE; IPOMOEA BATATAS; SOLUBILITY; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

GERBILLINAE; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 58649098534     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.098947     Document Type: Article

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