Carrots and Dietary Vitamin A Adequacy
1992 ◽
Vol 14
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pp. 1-5
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Carrots are a leading source e of vitamin A in the Guatemalan diet. Analyses of carrots using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC’) indicated that carrots have more than twice the amount of β carotene reported in the Latin American food compositio n tables. The consequence for the recalculation of daily vitamin A intake in a data set of pregnant pert-urban women is a 12% reduction in the number of women consuming <750 RE and a 19% reduction in the number with an intake of <600 RE. To the extent that earlier anayses underestimated the β carotene content of’ carrots, the estimates of vitamin A intake in Latin America have been variably and falsely low, depending on the contribution of carrots to the individuals reported diet.
Carotene and provitamin A content of vegetables sold in Viçosa, MG, Brazil, during spring and winter
2009 ◽
Vol 45
(3)
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pp. 527-537
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1993 ◽
Vol 56
(1)
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pp. 51-54
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1984 ◽
Vol 51
(4)
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pp. 637-641
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2013 ◽
Vol 83
(2)
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pp. 122-128
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2015 ◽
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