Background: Chicken meat products are highly susceptible to oxidative and microbial deterioration during storage, creating a need for safe natural preservatives that can maintain product quality. Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) essential oil possesses antioxidant and antimicrobi...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2026/v25i8906
Micronutrient deficiency, particularly vitamin A deficiency, persists among women and young children in rural Sierra Leone despite the local availability of nutrient-rich indigenous foods, whose dietary contribution is constrained by extreme seasonality, high perishability, and l...
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Research Article10.9734/afsj/2026/v25i8903
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and micronutrient deficiencies are substantial public health challenges in developing regions. Traditional cereal-based gruels often provide insufficient essential nutrients and have limited capacity to sequester free radicals in the body. This st...
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Biofortification is a strategy that has been proven to not only reduce the prevalence of micro-nutrient deficiencies, but also to tackle other forms of malnutrition. Apart from increasing the concentration of the target nutrient, biofortification has also been found to improve th...
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