Carotenoid and vitamin content of Micronesian atoll foods: Pandanus (Pandanus tectorius) and garlic pear (Crataeva speciosa) fruit

Journal of Food Composition and Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Englberger, Lois ^a   Schierle, Joseph ^b   Hofmann, Peter ^b   Lorens, Adelino ^a,c   Albert, Kiped ^a,c   Levendusky, Amy ^a   Paul, Yumiko ^d   Lickaneth, Edgar ^e   Elymore, Amato ^f   Maddison, Marie ^g,h   deBrum, Ione ⁱ   Nemra, Janet ⁱ   Alfred, Julia ^e   Velde, Nancy Vander ^e   Kraemer, Klaus ^b  

^a Island Food Community of Pohnpei   (Federated States of Micronesia)

^b DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

^c Pohnpei Agriculture of the Office of Economic Affairs   (Federated States of Micronesia)

^d Pohnpei Department of Health   (Federated States of Micronesia)

^e Pohnpei Legislature ^*  (Marshall Islands)

^f Social Services   (Federated States of Micronesia)

^g National Training Council   (Marshall Islands)

^h Women United Together Marshall Islands   (Marshall Islands)

ⁱ Ministry of Health Marshall Islands   (Marshall Islands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and nutrition; Biodiversity of traditional food systems; Carotenoid; Cultivar; Dietary change; Ethnographic approach to food analysis; Food analysis; Food composition; Garlic pear; Indigenous food; Micronesian atolls; Nutrition related chronic disease; Pandanus fruit; Vitamin; Vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

ALLIUM SATIVUM; CRATAEVA; CRATEVA TAPIA; PANDANUS; PANDANUS TECTORIUS; PYRUS;

EID: 62349128658     PISSN: 08891575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfca.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Abo T., Bender B.W., Capelle A., and Debrum T. Marshallese-English Dictionary (1976), The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
2. AOAC, 2005. Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC (Association of Official Analytical Chemists) International (18th ed.). AOAC International, Gaithersburg, MD.
3. Bentzen C. Land and Livelihood on Mokil: An atoll in the Eastern Carolines. Part II (1949), Pacific Board/National Research Council, Washington, DC/Los Angeles, CA
4. Bergaentzlé M., Arella F., Bourguignon J.B., and Hasselmann C. Determination of vitamin B6 in foods by HPLC: a collaborative study. Food Chemistry 52 (1995) 81-86
5. Blum L., Pelto P.J., Pelto G.H., and Kuhnlein H.V. Community Assessment of Natural Food Sources of Vitamin A: Guidelines for an Ethnographic Protocol (1997), International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
6. CEN methods, 2008. Methods published by the Comité Européen de normalization.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2001. Vitamin A deficiency among children-Federated States of Micronesia, 2000. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, June 22, 2001/50(24), 509-512.
8. Cortes L.M., Gittelsohn J., Alfred J., and Palafox N.A. Formative research to inform intervention development for diabetes prevention in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Health Education and Behavior 28 6 (2001) 696-715
9. CIA, 2008. World Fact Book. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rm.html and https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fm.html . Accessed April 19, 2008.
10. Coyne T. Lifestyle Diseases in Pacific Communities (2000), Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia
11. Coyne T., Ibiebele T.I., Baade P.D., Dobson A., McClintock C., Dunn S., Leonard D., and Shaw J. Diabetes mellitus and serum carotenoids: findings of a population-based study in Queensland, Australia. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 82 3 (2005) 685-693
12. Damas D. Bountiful Island: A Study of Land Tenure on a Micronesian Atoll (1994), Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario
13. Dignan C., Burlingame B., Kumar S., and Aalbersberg B. The Pacific Islands Food Composition Tables. 2nd ed. (2004), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
14. Englberger L., 2003. A Community and Laboratory-based Assessment of Natural Food Sources of Vitamin A in the Federated States of Micronesia. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland.
15. Englberger L. Apuch Fruit: A Vitamin A-rich Food of the Atolls (2004), Kaselehlie Press p. 13
16. Englberger L., Aalbersberg W., Fitzgerald M.H., Marks G.C., and Chand K. Provitamin A carotenoid content of different cultivars of edible pandanus fruit tectorius. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 16 2 (2003) 237-247
17. Englberger L., Fitzgerald M.H., and Marks G.C. Pacific pandanus fruit: an ethnographic approach to understanding an overlooked source of provitamin A carotenoids. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 12 1 (2003) 38-44
18. Englberger L., Schierle J., Marks G.C., and Fitzgerald M.H. Micronesian banana, taro, and other foods: newly recognized sources of provitamin A and other carotenoids. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 16 1 (2003) 3-19
19. Englberger L., Aalbersberg W., Dolodolotawake U., Schierle J., Humphries J., Iuta T., Marks G.C., Fitzgerald M.H., Rimon B., and Kaikairiete M. Carotenoid content of pandanus fruit cultivars and other foods of the Republic of Kiribati. Public Health Nutrition 9 5 (2006) 631-643
20. Englberger L., Aalbersberg W., Schierle J., Marks G.C., Fitzgerald M.H., Muller F., Jekkein A., Alfred J., and Vander Velde N. Carotenoid content of different edible pandanus fruit cultivars of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 19 (2006) 484-494
21. Englberger L., Schierle J., Aalbersberg W., Hofmann P., Humphries J., Huang A., Lorens A., Levendusky A., Daniells J., Marks G.C., and Fitzgerald M.H. Carotenoid and vitamin content of Karat and other Micronesian banana cultivars. International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition 57 (2006) 399-418
22. Englberger L., Schierle J., Kraemer K., Aalbersberg W., Dolodolotawake U., Humphries J., Graham R., Reid A.P., Lorens A., Albert K., Levendusky A., Johnson E., Paul Y., and Sengebau F. Carotenoid and mineral content of Micronesian giant swamp taro (Cyrtosperma) cultivars. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 21 (2008) 93-106
23. Fitzgerald M.H. Ethnography. In: Higgs J. (Ed). Qualitative Research: Discourse on Methodologies (1997), Hampden Press, Sydney 48-60
24. Garcia-Casal M.N. Carotenoids increase iron absorption from cereal-based food in the humans. Nutrition Research 26 (2006) 340-344
25. Greenfield H., and Southgate D.A.T. Food composition data: production. Management and Use (2003), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
26. Harrison S.P., and Albert S. Mokilese-English Dictionary (1977), The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
27. Hezel F.X. Health in Micronesia over the years. Micronesian Counselor 53 (2004) 1-14
28. Hiyane J.T. Pandanus in the Marshall Islands: Agricultural Extension Bulletin No. 10. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1971), Bridge Printery Pty. Ltd., Sydney
29. Holland B., Welch A.A., Unwin I.D., Buss D.H., Paul A.A., and Southgate D.A.T. MCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods. 5th ed. (1991), Royal Society of Chemistry and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Cambridge, United Kingdom
30. Hughes R.G. Diet, Food Supply and Obesity in the Pacific (2003), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
31. Indyk H.E., and Woollard D.C. Vitamin K in milk and infant formulas: determination and distribution of phylloquinone and menaquinone-4. Analyst 122 (1997) 465-469
32. Institute of Medicine, 2001. Dietary reference intakes for vitamin A, vitamin K, arsenic, boron, chromium, copper, iodine, iron, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, vanadium, and zinc. A report of the Panel on Micronutrients, Subcommittees on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients and of Interpretation and Use of Dietary Reference Intakes, and the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes. Food and Nutrition Board. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
33. IPGRI, 2006. Report of the Stakeholders' Workshop on Cross-cutting Initiative on Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition. The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute. Maccarese, Rome. February 16-17, 2006. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Rome.
34. Keller H.E. Analytical Methods for Vitamins and Carotenoids in Feed (1988), Roche, Basel, Switzerland
35. Kim, D., 2002. Vitamin A deficiency among children and caregivers in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia. Final Report. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
36. Kuhnlein H.V. The joys and pains of sampling and analysis of traditional food of indigenous peoples. Journal of Food Composition and Analysis 13 (2000) 649-658
37. Kuhnlein, H.V., Smitasiri, S., Yesudas, S., Bhattacharjee, L., Dan, L., Ahmed, S., 2005. Documenting Traditional Food Systems of Indigenous Peoples: International Case Studies. Guidelines for Procedures. Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, Ste Anne de Bellevue.
38. Lieber M.D., and Dikepa K.H. Kapingamarangi Lexicon (1974), The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
39. McLaren D.S., and Frigg M. Sight and Life Manual on Vitamin A Deficiency Disorders (VADD). 2nd ed. (2001), Task Force Sight and Life, Basel, Switzerland
40. Mares-Perlman J.A., Millen A.E., Ficek T.L., and Hankinson S.E. The body of evidence to support a protective role for lutein and zeaxanthin in delaying chronic disease: overview. Journal of Nutrition 132 3 (2002) 518S-524S
41. Merlin M., and Juvik J. Ira me Neeniier non-Chuuk: Plants and their Environments in Chuuk (1996), East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
42. Merlin M., Kugfas A., Keene T., and Juvik J. Gidii nge Gakiiy nu Wa'ab: Plants, People and Ecology in Yap (1996), East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
43. Merlin M., Capelle A., Keene T., Juvik J., and Maragos J. Keinikkan im Melan Aelon Kein: Plants and Environments of the Marshall Islands (1997), East-West Center, Honolulu, HI
44. Miller R.E. 20. Health report of Kapingamarangi. Atoll Research Bulletin (1953), The Pacific Science Board/National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council, Washington, DC
45. Murai M., Pen F., and Miller C.D. Some tropical South Pacific Island foods. Description, History, Use, Composition, and Nutritive Value (1958), University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI
46. Palafox N.A., Gamble M.V., Dancheck B., Ricks M.O., Briand K., and Semba R.D. Vitamin A deficiency, iron deficiency, and anemia among preschool children in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Nutrition 19 (2003) 405-408
47. Pohnpei STEPS, 2002. Preliminary data of the Pohnpei Department of Health and FSM Department of Health, Education, and Social Affairs: WHO STEPwise Approach to NCD Surveillance. Presented at the FSM Health Symposium, January 26-27, 2006, Kolonia, Pohnpei, FSM.
48. Pollock N.J. These Roots Remain: Food Habits in Islands of the Central and Eastern Pacific Since Western Contact (1992), Institute for Polynesian Studies, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI
49. Ridgell R. Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. 3rd ed. revised (1995), Bess Press Inc., Honolulu, HI
50. Rodriguez-Amaya D.B. A Guide to Carotenoid Analysis in Foods (1999), ILSI Press, Washington, DC
51. Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), 2002. Obesity in the Pacific: Too Big to Ignore. SPC, Noumea, New Caledonia.
52. Thomson L.A.J., Englberger L., Guarino L., Thaman R.R., and Elevitch C.R. Pandanus tectorius (pandanus). In: Elevitch C.R. (Ed). Traditional Trees of Pacific Islands: Their Culture, Environment, and Use (2006), Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawai'i
53. Vuilleumier J.P. The Roche yolk color fan-an instrument for measuring yolk color. Poultry Science 48 3 (1969) 787-779
54. WHO/FAO, 2004. Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition: Second Edition. Joint FAO/WHO expert consultation on Human Vitamin and Mineral Requirements (Bangkok, Thailand, 1998). Rome: WHO/FAO.
55. World Bank, 2000. Cities, Sea, and Storms: Managing Change in Pacific Island Economies. Volume IV. Adapting to Climate Change. Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands Country Unit/The World Bank. World Bank, Washington, DC.
56. World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research, 2007. Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective. AICR, Washington, DC.
57. Yamamura C., Sullivan K.M., van der Haar F., Auerbach S.B., and Iohp K.K. Risk factors for vitamin A deficiency among preschool aged children in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 50 1 (2004) 16-19