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Zinc absorption from maize-based meals enriched with edible house crickets: a randomized crossover stable-isotope study in Kenyan pre-school children

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العنوان: Zinc absorption from maize-based meals enriched with edible house crickets: a randomized crossover stable-isotope study in Kenyan pre-school children
المؤلفون: Nikolin Hilaj, Tele Boit, Pauline Andang’o, Christophe Zeder, Martin N. Mwangi, Marijke Hummel, Ornella Necochea Velazco, Joop J. A. van Loon, Marcel Dicke, Michael B. Zimmermann, Alida Melse-Boonstra
المصدر: Nature Communications, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2025)
بيانات النشر: Nature Portfolio, 2025.
سنة النشر: 2025
المجموعة: LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Science
الوصف: Abstract Edible insects have been proposed as a novel and sustainable source of protein and other essential nutrients for human consumption but nutrient absorption efficiency is still uncertain. We investigated zinc absorption from house crickets (Acheta domesticus) in a single-center and single-blinded cross-over study with children aged 24–36 months old in Kenya from September-November 2021. For this, children were randomized to consume two different experimental meals labeled with stable isotopes of zinc (Zn) at two different days, separated by a wash-out period of one month. Primary endpoints were the differences in amount of absorbed zinc (AZ) from maize-based meals enriched with intrinsically 67Zn-labeled house crickets (2.61 mg Zn, n = 28) in comparison with meals enriched with 68Zn (low-enriched: 0.90 mg Zn, n = 29); high-enriched: 3.24 mg Zn, n = 28) or with intrinsically 67Zn-labeled low-chitin cricket flour (2.51 mg Zn, n = 25), whereas the secondary endpoints were the differences in fractional zinc absorption. We found that AZ from meals with whole crickets (geometric mean: 0.36 mg; 95%CI: 0.30, 0.43) was 2.6 times higher than from low-enriched maize meals (0.14 mg; 0.11, 0.16; P
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2041-1723
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56259-1
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/243458b11de1449bb78c9c8744ac96cf
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.243458b11de1449bb78c9c8744ac96cf
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تدمد:20411723
DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-56259-1