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Elemental Enrichment of Foods: Essentiality and Toxicity

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  • Juliana Naozuka

    (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Chemistry Department, Brazil)

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Enrichment foods with essential elements are one way to supply micronutrient deficiency. For this, the fortified fertilizing of the soils is a promising strategy. However, the enrichment through appropriate cultivation should be seen beyond the need to minimize nutritional deficiencies, since that it can also be applied in the resolution of environmental problems, aiming at reducing toxicity by heavy metals in food. In both studies it is necessary to evaluate the interactions between the different elements during absorption and translocation. Additionally, it is important to point out that the necessity to know the elemental species capable of being absorbed and used by plants and mushrooms in their metabolism, as well as species formed after enrichment, since that is necessary to evaluate if these fortified foods have the same chemical characteristics of those formed when the food is grown under natural soil conditions and free of toxic metals.

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  • Juliana Naozuka, 2018. "Elemental Enrichment of Foods: Essentiality and Toxicity," Nutrition & Food Science International Journal, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 4(3), pages 80-84, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jnfsij:v:4:y:2018:i:3:p:80-84
    DOI: 10.19081/NFSIJ.2018.04.555640
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