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Pro‐vitamin A carotenoids in East African highland banana and other Musa cultivars grown in Uganda

Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) are an important staple and food security crop in sub‐Saharan Africa. In Uganda, where the consumption of East African highland banana (EAHB) is the highest in the world, the population suffers from a high incidence of vitamin A deficiency (VAD). Since the consumpti...

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Autores principales: Mbabazi, Ruth, Harding, Robert, Khanna, Harjeet, Namanya, Priver, Arinaitwe, Geofrey, Tushemereirwe, Wilberforce, Dale, James, Paul, Jean‐Yves
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6977416/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31993157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fsn3.1308