Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences
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Kiri H Jaryum

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• Research Article
  Zinc Content of Staple Grains and Domestic Water from Kanam Local Government Area, North-Central Nigeria
  Author(s): Kiri H Jaryum Kiri H Jaryum
  
  Zinc is one of the essential trace elements in human nutrition. Adequate zinc nutrition is essential for human health because of zinc’s critical structural and functional roles in many enzyme systems that are involved in gene expression, cell division and growth and immunologic and reproductive functions. On account of its very important roles in strategic biologic functions in the body, inadequate dietary intake of zinc has serious health consequences. Samples of five grains (maize, guinea corn, millet, cowpea and groundnut) and domestic water sources from Kanam Local Government Area, Nigeria; a population of suspected zinc deficiency, were analyzed for their zinc content using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrophotometry. The samples were wet-ashed according to the protocol of Hill et al. before the analysis. The objective of the study was to investigate the levels of zin.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9600.1000705

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