Lentils (Lens Culinaris L): A superior whole food solution to micronutrient malnutrition

Micronutrients: Sources, Properties and Health Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 179-191

  Thavarajah, Dil ^a   Thavarajah, Pushparajah ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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