Short-term, Daily Supplementation with Vitamin A, But Not Beta-carotene, Increases Plasma and Breast Milk Retinol Concentration in Lactating Filipino Women
Reina Englestone, Akoto Osei, Dolly Reario, Joanne Arsenault, Kenneth Brown & Marjorie Haskell · European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety · 2015
Objective: To assess the usefulness of breast milk vitamin A (BMVA) for evaluating the impact of food-based vitamin A (VA) interventions. Methods: We assessed the effect of daily supplementation with 600 ug VA activity as either retinyl palmitate or β-carotene (BC) or 0 ug VA act...
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10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21029