Objectives: AIM is a partnership of 20 organizations in Europe and Africa. It includes 7 projects that combine assurance of sufficient and affordable quality of food supply (‘push') with stimulation of demand for nutritious foods (‘pull'). AIM provides the opportunity to assess t...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21150
Elise F. Talsma, Inge D. Brouwer, Hans Verhoef, Alice M. Mwangi, Erick Boy, Busie B. Maziya-Dixon, Michael B. Zimmermann & Alida Melse-Boonstra·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2015
Objectives: To measure the effect of daily consumption of provitamin A-biofortified cassava on vitamin A status in children aged 5-13 years. Methods: Mild-to-moderate vitamin A deficient children (n=342) were randomly allocated to groups receiving: 1) 375 g of white cassava and p...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21116
Objectives: To assess the diagnostic performance of serum concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP), transthyretin, retinol concentration measured by fluorometry and RBP:transthyretin molar ratio, either alone or in combination, to estimate the prevalence of vitamin A defic...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/20993
Objectives: Infants from 6 months onwards need energy- and nutrient dense complementary foods. This is a challenge in Ethiopia, where monotonous diets of poor nutrient density are fed to young children. We used data of the National Food Consumption Survey to determine nutrient a...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2015/21159