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Nutrient Deficiencies in Naturally Occurring Foods

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Nutrient deficiencies in foods ingested by animals and human beings may be inherent or acquired. Causal factors, responsible for nutrient deficiency may be single or multiple. A tenable argument is that all foods are nutrient deficient if they do not per se provide all nutrients necessary to physiological maintenance without addition of other foods or nutrients. However, given that different foods are consumed that complement one another in providing for nutritional needs, then nutrient-deficient foods are those that have inherent or acquired characteristics that render them inferior in comparison with other foods of similar origin. In the context of human nutrition, a nutrient-deficient food is one that cannot support life, growth, tissue repair, or optimal health if used as a staple food. The limitations of this definition will be obvious to the purist but may serve the purposes of this discussion.

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