Component
Blood retinol concentration in vitamin-A-deficient infants
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What it does
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What acts on it
In a six-week pilot feeding study, Moringa-fortified complementary foods produced only marginal, nonsignificant blood-retinol increases, and all infants remained vitamin A deficient.
Experimental context and source evidence
- dose
- Two Moringa-fortified foods versus a cereal-legume control
- duration
- Six weeks
- evidence_access
- Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
- evidence_scope
- literature_reviewed; model-specific source-derived curation
- experimental_model
- Sixty-five completing infant-mother pairs in Ghana
- limitations
- The pilot had substantial attrition and short follow-up; its null result does not contradict measured carotenoid conversion in well-nourished children.
- nutrient_topic
- Moringa oleifera chapter; interacting nutrients, drugs, peptides and proteins retain their experimental settings. · Moringa oleifera
- organism
- Sixty-five completing infant-mother pairs in Ghana
- plain_language
- In a six-week pilot feeding study, Moringa-fortified complementary foods produced only marginal, nonsignificant blood-retinol increases, and all infants remained vitamin A deficient.
- primary_references
- Improving Blood Retinol Concentrations with Complementary Foods Fortified with Moringa oleifera Leaf Powder - A Pilot Study. (2018). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29962920/
- route
- Oral feeding
- tissue
- Whole-blood retinol
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Original AI-assisted source-specific curation with primary-study citations, model, exposure, route, duration, negative findings and limitations preserved. Not publisher full text. · supports · Sixty-five completing infant-mother pairs in Ghana · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
## moringa-infant-retinol-null In a six-week pilot feeding study, Moringa-fortified complementary foods produced only marginal, nonsignificant blood-retinol increases, and all infants remained vitamin A deficient. Model/species: Sixty-five completing infant-mother pairs in Ghana Tissue/system: Whole-blood retinol Exposure: Two Moringa-fortified foods versus a cereal-legume control Route: Oral feeding Duration: Six weeks Limits: The pilot had substantial attrition and short follow-up; its null result does not contradict measured carotenoid conversion in well-nourished children. Primary reference: Improving Blood Retinol Concentrations with Complementary Foods Fortified with Moringa oleifera Leaf Powder - A Pilot Study. (2018). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29962920/ Access: Primary PubMed abstract and indexed metadata reviewed. Full-text method details not stated here remain unresolved.
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