Food-based approaches for ensuring adequate vitamin A nutrition
| cg.authorship.types | CGIAR single centre | en |
| cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - HarvestPlus | |
| cg.number | 8 | en |
| cg.place | Washington, DC | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Tanumihardjo, Sherry A. | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-21T10:02:57Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-21T10:02:57Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162424 | |
| dc.title | Food-based approaches for ensuring adequate vitamin A nutrition | en |
| dcterms.abstract | More than 250 million children under the age of five have vitamin A (VA) deficiency. Efforts to improve VA status globally have included supplementation and food fortification. Supplementation, however, can result in sharp spikes and declines in VA concentration in the body, while VA fortificants can lead to hypervitaminosis, which requires continuous monitoring to ensure that levels of total ? body VA are not excessive. Biofortifying staple crops with ??carotene, a major source of provitamin A, is an emerging option for improving VA status without these shortcomings. This review tests the extent to which biofortification may be an alternative to supplementation and food fortification. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Tanumihardjo, Sherry A. 2008. Food-based approaches for ensuring adequate vitamin A nutrition. HarvestPlus Abstract 8. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162424 | en |
| dcterms.extent | 2 p. | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf | HarvestPlus Abstract | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2008 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
| dcterms.replaces | https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/129241 | en |
| dcterms.subject | food consumption | en |
| dcterms.subject | nutrition | en |
| dcterms.subject | retinol | en |
| dcterms.subject | carotenes | en |
| dcterms.subject | vitamin a | en |
| dcterms.subject | plant breeding | en |
| dcterms.subject | trace elements | en |
| dcterms.subject | biofortification | en |
| dcterms.type | Working Paper |
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