Biofortified sweet potatoes as a tool to combat vitamin A deficiency: effect of food processing in carotenoid content.
This review presents an overview of biofortification, with an emphasis on orange-flesh sweet potatoes (OFSP), and points out the effects of food processing on nutritional compounds. The identification of cultivars and biofortification actions to obtain biofortified OFSP by conventional breeding are...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) |
| Repositório: | Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice) |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br:doc/1132196 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1132196 https://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75182021000300414 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Batata Doce Caroteno Ipomoea Batatas Biofortification Sweet potatoes Vitamin A deficiency Plant breeding Food technology Beta-carotene |
| Resumo: | This review presents an overview of biofortification, with an emphasis on orange-flesh sweet potatoes (OFSP), and points out the effects of food processing on nutritional compounds. The identification of cultivars and biofortification actions to obtain biofortified OFSP by conventional breeding are presented as affordable strategies to supply β-carotene to alleviate vitamin A deficiency, without having ethical dilemmas related to transgenics. |
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