Sweetpotato- And cereal-based infant foods: Protein quality assessment, and effect on body composition using Sprague Dawley rats as a model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Amagloh, Francis Kweku ^a   Chiridza, Tracy ^b   Lemercier, Marie Eve ^c   Broomfield, Anne ^b   Morel, Patrick C H ^d   Coad, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS   (France)

^d MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BABY FOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE MASS; CEREAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FAT MASS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; INFANT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DIGESTIBILITY CORRECTED AMINO ACID SCORE; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN QUALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWEET POTATO; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMISTRY; FOOD GRAIN; FOOD QUALITY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE;

ANIMALIA; IPOMOEA BATATAS; RATTUS;

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN INTAKE;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY PROTEINS; EDIBLE GRAIN; FOOD QUALITY; INFANT FOOD; IPOMOEA BATATAS; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; RATS;

EID: 84926435537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120121     Document Type: Article

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