Iron bioavailability of rats fed liver, lentil, spinach and their mixtures.
To study the effects of dietary iron source (basal diet-FeSO4 x 7H2O, liver, lentil, spinach, liver + lentil, liver+spinach and lentil+spinach) on iron bioavailability, fifty-six Albino Sprague Dawley derived male 21 days old rats were fed on iron-deficient diet (7.8 mg Fe kg(-1) diet) and the mentioned seven iron containing diets (40 mg Fe kg(-1) diet) for 10 days. Rats fed liver diet showed higher iron apparent absorption (52.1%), hemoglobin (Hb) gain (0.94 g/100 mL), Hb-iron gain (1.2 mg), Hb-regeneration efficiency (HRE%) (50.8%), relative efficiency of HRE% (106.5%), packed cell volume gain (2.22%) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (0.64 g dL(-1)). Liver resulted in an increase in these parameters when mixed with lentil and spinach diets. However, rats fed iron free diet showed the higher dry matter absorption.
Rewashdeh
Abdullah Y
AY
Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agricultural, Mu'tah University, Al-Karak, Jordan.
El-Qudah
Jafar M
JM
Al-Dmoor
Hanee
H
Al-Qudah
Maisa M
MM
Mamkagh
Amer M
AM
Tarawneh
Khaled A
KA
Hawari
Azmi D
AD
Dababneh
Basem F
BF
Al-Bakheit
Alaa A
AA
Haddad
Moawya A
MA
D000818:Animals; D001682:Biological Availability; D004032:Diet; D005502:Food; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000378:metabolism; D019266:Iron, Dietary / Q000378:metabolism*; D027806:Lens Plant / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D018724:Spinacia oleracea / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism
D006454:Hemoglobins; D019266:Iron, Dietary