Efficacy and other nutrition evidence for Vitamin A crops
Biofortified crops as sources of vitamin A contain provitamin A carotenoids, which are a precursor of vitamin A, similar to those found in some plant foods like carrots, mangos, and papaya. Two important factors to consider in the provitamin A crops are retention and bioavailability. The bioavailabi...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2014
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151409 |
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