Meat has exerted a crucial role in human evolution and is an important component of a
healthy and well balanced diet due to its nutritional richness. The present review attempts to …

Objective. To provide an overview of nutrients and compounds, which influence human
intestinal iron absorption, thereby making a platform for elaboration of dietary …

Ascorbic acid (AscH2) is one of the most important vitamins found in the human diet, with
many biological functions including antioxidant, chelating, and coenzyme activities. Ascorbic …

Iron and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) are essential nutrients for the normal growth and
development of humans, and their deficiency can result in serious diseases. Their …

Millets are a traditional staple food of the dryland regions of the world and are rich in
essential nutrients like protein, fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, and dietary fiber. Also, millets …

Iron absorption is a complex and highly controlled process where DMT1 transports
nonheme iron through the brush-border membrane of enterocytes to the cytoplasm but does …

This paper investigates the possibility for iron fortification of food using a new preparation
method for protein gel particles in which iron is entrapped in the presence of ascorbate …

Currently, in the development of food technologies, an urgent issue is the creation of
biologically complete food products. One of these areas is devoted to solving the problem of …

Static digestion in vitro is a commonly used technique for investigating micronutrient
availability which allows the nutrients or foods of interest to be exposed to conditions that …

A proper understanding of the properties of iron could increase the effectiveness of
programmes for alleviating iron deficiency. Recently, encapsulation has been considered an …