Biofortified Maize Can Improve Quality Protein Intakes among Young Children in Southern Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Quality protein maize (QPM) varieties are biofortified, or nutritionally improved, to have higher lysine and tryptophan levels to increase quality protein intakes particularly among young children. This study assesses adequacy of children's protein intakes in Ethiopia, where QPM is being promoted, accounting for protein quality and seasonal dietary changes, and estimates potential increases in intakes if QPM replaced conventional maize in diets. Diets of randomly sampled children aged 12⁻36 months in rural southern Ethiopia (n = 218) were assessed after harvest during relative food security and 3⁻4 months later during relative food insecurity using 24-h weighed food records. Diets were analyzed for protein adequacy, accounting for protein quality using the protein digestibility corr

SUBMITTER: Gunaratna NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6356635 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature