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Man requires wide range of nutrients. Copper and zinc are required in minute quantities by our body and are involved to upkeep the health. There are voluminous information on recommended level of intake of copper and zinc in the normal diet. On the basis of extensive research work carried out on man and laboratory animals, there is also some information available all over the world on the amount of each nutrient required by human beings at different ages. This provides sound basis for planning well balanced diets in terms of food habitually consumed by the communities. Based on this knowledge it has been possible to determine whether the diet in common use by different segments of communities are adequate or inadequate to meet their nutritional needs. As we can not use the entire information available on the subject, only some important investigations have been referred in the text. Information on physiological requirement of nutrients and food habits help in determination of recommended dietary allowance or intake which accounts for individual variation in nutritional needs (Gopalan et al., 1991).
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Gouri, K., Raza, S.H. (2000). Copper and Zinc Content in the Food Commodities of Hyderabad. In: Yunus, M., Singh, N., de Kok, L.J. (eds) Environmental Stress: Indication, Mitigation and Eco-conservation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9532-2_27
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