[Copper and zinc in food products for infants and children].
Ready to use infant food, namely 7 types of fruit and vegetable juices, 7 types of vegetable-meat soups and 8 types of dinner vegetable-meat meals, was investigated by the flame AAS towards the copper and the zinc content. The average levels of the copper and the zinc were respectively--for the juices: 0.31 mg/kg and 0.51 mg/kg, for the soups: 0.38 mg/kg and 2.60 mg/kg, for the dinner meals: 0.42 mg/kg and 2.98 mg/kg. Consumption of a single unit pack of all the 3 types of food products will cover 29% of recommended daily copper intake and 22% of zinc.
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Agnieszka
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Katedra i Zakład Bromatologii, Akademia Medyczna, 20-081 Lublin, ul. Staszica 4. agnieszka.marzec@am.lublin.pl
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D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D003300:Copper / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000032:analysis*; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007225:Infant Food / Q000032:analysis*; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009753:Nutritive Value; D011044:Poland; D014131:Trace Elements / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000032:analysis*; D015032:Zinc / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000032:analysis*
D014131:Trace Elements; D003300:Copper; D015032:Zinc