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The effect of apples and cranberries on calcium retention

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    The inclusion of 20 per cent fresh cranberries in an adequate diet for white rats, increased body calcium retention 8.4 ± .8 per cent.

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    Under similar experimental conditions, apples increased body calcium retention 10.8 ± 1.1 per cent.

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    Cranberries probably increased the calcium content of the femur ash slightly 1.8 ± .4 per cent, but apples showed no significant increase in calcium content.

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  1. Nutrition Laboratory, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Massachusetts

    Abraham Mindell, William b. Esselen & Carl r. Fellers

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Contribution No. 321 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass.

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Mindell, A., Esselen, W.b. & Fellers, C.r. The effect of apples and cranberries on calcium retention. American Journal of Digestive Diseases 6, 116–119 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03007933

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