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The nutritional availability of iron in molasses

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The American Journal of Digestive Diseases

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  1. 1.

    The availability of the iron of three grades of molasses (“first,” “second” and “third”) has been determined by chemical (dipyridyl) and biological procedures.

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    By the chemical procedure the “availability” was found to be 97 per cent, 85 per cent and 54 percent, respectively.

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    By the biological (rat) method the availability was slightly over 90 per cent, approximately 80 per cent, and 50 per cent, respectively.

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    The dipyridyl procedure is acceptable for the determination of the availability of iron in molasses.

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    Molasses is a rich and inexpensive source of available iron.

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    Robert S. Harris, L. Malcolm Mosher & John W. M. Bunker

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Publication No. 157 from the Biological Research Laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Mass

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Harris, R.S., Mosher, L.M. & Bunker, J.W.M. The nutritional availability of iron in molasses. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 6, 459–462 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02996510

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