Micronutrient-Fortified Rice Provides More Dietary Iron (6 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Micronutrient-Fortified Rice Provides More Dietary Iron (6 of 9)

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Jasmine rice (top) vs. unfortified extruded rice (bottom). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 27th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by L.S. Hackl at ETH Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Micronutrient-fortified rice can be a significant source of dietary bioavailable iron in schoolchildren from rural Ghana."

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[Credit: Laura Hackl, 2016/2017]

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