The challenge to reach nutritional adequacy for vitamin A: β-carotene bioavailability and conversion - Evidence in humans

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Haskell, Marjorie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; FAT; RETINOL; VEGETABLE OIL;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; VEGETABLE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

BETA CAROTENE; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; FRUIT; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; VEGETABLES; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84867797696     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.034850     Document Type: Review

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