TY - JOUR
AU1 - Anuradha Goyle
AU2 - Shyam Prakash
AB - Purpose – Iron deficiency anaemia is widely prevalent amongst women and children in India. The aim of the paper is to study the effect of supplementation of micronutrient fortified biscuits on haemoglobin and serum iron levels of adolescent girls ( n = 46, 10‐16 years) studying in a government school in Jaipur city, India. Design/methodology/approach – The study was designed to be an intervention study. The intervention was with biscuits fortified with 30 mg iron, 100 ॖg folic acid, 600 ॖg vitamin A, 40 mg vitamin C and 150 ॖg iodine. The iron status of adolescent girls was determined through haemoglobin and serum iron levels. Findings – The results revealed that 95.7 per cent of the adolescent girls suffered from anaemia of which 28.3 per cent had “mild” deficiency and 67.4 per cent had “moderate” deficiency. Anaemia was more prevalent in the older age groups. On supplementation, there was a significant increase in the haemoglobin levels. There was a three‐fold increase in the percentage of adolescent girls in the “normal” category of anaemia from 4.3 to 13.0 per cent and more than two‐fold decrease in the “moderate” category of anaemia from 67.4 to 28.3 per cent. Moreover, 21.7 per cent of the subjects had “normal” levels while the rest (78.3 per cent) had low levels of serum iron; the percentage of adolescent girls in the normal category increased to 93.5 per cent after intervention on the basis of serum iron levels. Research limitations/implications – Supplementation with iron and folic acid with other micronutrients improved the haemoglobin and serum iron levels of the adolescent girls significantly. Originality/value – The paper recommends that the school system can be used for micronutrient supplementation to improve the nutritional status of children and adolescents as the students are more regimented here for distribution of nutrient fortified food products.
TI - Effect of supplementation of micronutrient fortified biscuits on haemoglobin and serum iron levels of adolescent girls from Jaipur city, India
JF - Nutrition & Food Science
DO - 10.1108/00346651011076983
DA - 2010-09-14
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/emerald-publishing/effect-of-supplementation-of-micronutrient-fortified-biscuits-on-CROAm7wHHl
SP - 477
EP - 484
VL - 40
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -