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A preliminary simulated iron fortification trial in South Indian preschool children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2008

Sheila M. Pereira ,
Almas Begum ,
V. I. Mathan  and
S. J. Baker
Sheila M. Pereira
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Wellcome Research Unit, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
Almas Begum
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Wellcome Research Unit, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
V. I. Mathan
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Wellcome Research Unit, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
S. J. Baker
Affiliation:
Nutrition Research Unit and Wellcome Research Unit, Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India
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Abstract

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1. The effect of fortification of food with iron to provide 10 mg elemental Fe/child per d was studied in preschool children maintained on a cereal diet, over a 5-month period.

2. The absorption of 5 mg Fe as ferrous sulphate mixed in one meal was 3.3% of the test dose and when 3.3 mg was given with each of three meals over a 2 d period the corresponding value was 4.8%.

3. The mean absorption of a test dose of ferrous ascorbate studied in twenty-four children midway through the trial was 42%.

4. The only beneficial effect of Fe fortification in this time-period in the experimental group was the prevention of the decrease in packed cell volume which occurred in the control group.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , May 1979 , pp. 413 - 417
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1979

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