NEW IRON-FORTIFIED RICE REDUCES ANEMIA - AZERTAC

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NEW IRON-FORTIFIED RICE REDUCES ANEMIA

25.12.2009 [16:43]
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Baku, 25 December (AZERTAC). Iron deficiency affects an estimated 3.5 billion people worldwide, VOA reports. In adults, it causes fatigue and lost productivity. It can increase the risk of infection and death in young children, and can also limit their motor skills and ability to learn later in life.

Iron deficiency and its more serious consequence, anemia, are especially common among people who don`t eat meat or can`t afford it, and who therefore subsist on grains. Wheat and maize are often fortified with iron. But rice has proved hard to fortify without adversely affecting its appearance or flavor.

Re-assembled rice

Diego Moretti at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and his colleagues tried using "fake" rice made out of iron-fortified rice-flour dough and shaped by machine into grains that look like the local variety.

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