title: Iron bioavailability of rats fed liver, lentil, spinach and their mixtures.
abstract: 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.
authors: Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agricultural, Mu'tah University, Al-Karak, Jordan.
authors: Abdullah Y
authors: AY
authors: Rewashdeh
authors: Jafar M
authors: JM
authors: El-Qudah
authors: Hanee
authors: H
authors: Al-Dmoor
authors: Maisa M
authors: MM
authors: Al-Qudah
authors: Amer M
authors: AM
authors: Mamkagh
authors: Khaled A
authors: KA
authors: Tarawneh
authors: Azmi D
authors: AD
authors: Hawari
authors: Basem F
authors: BF
authors: Dababneh
authors: Alaa A
authors: AA
authors: Al-Bakheit
authors: Moawya A
authors: MA
authors: Haddad
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D006454:Hemoglobins; D019266:Iron, Dietary