Acceptability of Iron- and Zinc-Biofortified Pearl Millet (ICTP-8203)-Based Complementary Foods among Children in an Urban Slum of Mumbai, India

Frontiers in Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Huey, Samantha Lee ^a   Venkatramanan, Sudha ^a   Udipi, Shobha A ^b   Finkelstein, Julia Leigh ^a,c   Ghugre, Padmini ^b   Haas, Jere Douglas ^a   Thakker, Varsha ^b   Thorat, Aparna ^b   Salvi, Ashwini ^b   Kurpad, Anura V ^c   Mehta, Saurabh ^a,c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b SNDT WOMEN S UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

acceptability; biofortification; children; ICTP 8203; iron; iron deficiency; pearl millet

Indexed keywords

EID: 85053167083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296861X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2017.00039     Document Type: Article

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