Vitamin Source

Contents Vitamin A deficiency Carotenoid - rich bananas : A potential food source for alleviating vitamin A deficiency —

This review article points out that bananas are an important food for many people in the world. Thus, banana cultivars rich in provitamin A carotenoids may offer a potential food source for alleviating vitamin A deficiency, particularly in developing countries. Many factors are associated with the presently known food sources of vitamin A that limit their effectiveness in improving vitamin A st...

Vitamin Synthesis in Plants as Affected by Light Source.*

An inspection of the literature dealing with the subject of vitamins furnishes evidence to indicate that they are probably chemical compounds in nature, losing their potency easily through changes (oxidative, hydrolytic, or splitting in nature) whose exact nature has never been fully established. There is much to indicate that they are compounds existing in an active and an inactive form mutual...

Spirulina Pacifica as a Source of Cobalamin Vitamin B-12

Golden Rice is an effective source of vitamin A.

BACKGROUND Genetically engineered "Golden Rice" contains up to 35 microg beta-carotene per gram of rice. It is important to determine the vitamin A equivalency of Golden Rice beta-carotene to project the potential effect of this biofortified grain in rice-consuming populations that commonly exhibit low vitamin A status. OBJECTIVE The objective was to determine the vitamin A value of intrinsic...

Ghee as a Source of Vitamin A in Indian Dietaries: The Effect of Cooking on the Vitamin Content of Foods