Food-based approaches for ensuring adequate vitamin A nutrition
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 ca...
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| Format: | Artículo preliminar |
| Language: | Inglés |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2008
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162424 |
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