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Factors influencing the absorption of iron from soya-bean protein products

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

D. P. Derman
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
D. Ballot
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
T. H. Bothwell
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
B. J. Macfarlane
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
R. D. Baynes
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
A. P. Macphail
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
M. Gillooly
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
J. E. Bothwell
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
W. R. Bezwoda
Affiliation:
Joint UniversitylSouth African MRC Iron and Red Cell Metabolism Unit, Department of Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, 7 York Road, Parktown, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
F. Mayet
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Natal Medical School, Congella, Durban, South Africa
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1. The absorption of iron from soya-bean (Glycine hispida)-based and milk-based infant formulas was assessed in 138 multiparous Indian women, using the erythrocyte utilization of radioactive Fe method.

2. Fe absorption was significantly greater from the basal milk formula (1.5 g protein) than it was from the basal soya-bean formula (2.3 g protein), with geometric mean values of 0.083 and 0.044 respectively.

3. Ascorbic acid markedly increased Fe absorption from the milk-based formula in a dose-dependent fashion. The increase was fivefold when the ascorbic acid: Fe ratio on a weight-for-weight basis was 6: 1 and over tenfold when it was 20:1. In contrast, ascorbic acid had a less-marked effect on the absorption of Fe from the soya-bean-based formula, with only a two- to threefold increase at an ascorbic acid: Fe ratio of 20: 1.

4. The geometric mean Fe absorption from the soya-bean formula (1.27 mg Fe, 2.3 g isolated soya-bean protein (ISP)) was somewhat less than that from the same amounts of ISP and ascorbic acid made up in milk (0.075 and 0.1 13 respectively). However, a direct comparison between the soya-bean formula in milk and in water showed no significant difference (0.043 and 0.060 respectively).

5. Fe absorption from a drink containing 10 g ISP and 30 mg ascorbic acid was significantly better than that from a similar drink containing the soya-bean flour from which ISP is extracted (0.044 and 0.027 respectively).

6. Heating ISP to 200° for 2 h before its use had no effect on Fe availability. When 2.3 g heated ISP (10 mg ascorbic acid) was compared with a similar formulation of untreated ISP, Fe absorption values were 0.135 and 0.099 respectively. Comparable values with 25 g ISP (no ascorbic acid) were 0.067 and 0.058.

7. Citric acid in amounts of 1 4 g had a dose related but limited enhancing effect on Fe absorption from 10 g ISP, with a rise from 0.01 1 (no citric acid) to 0.068 (4 g citric acid).

8. There was appreciable variability in the levels of Fe absorption in different studies, which suggested that unidentified manufacturing or preparative differences might be influencing the overall results.

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Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1987

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