Understanding Nutrition
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Author: Eleanor Noss Whitney, Sharon Rady Rolfes
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10.2, Problem 10.3TI
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To calculate: The amount of dietary folate equivalents a person receives from 200µg of folate from a supplement, 75µg of folate from fortified cereal, and 120µg of folate from other foods.
Concept introduction: Folate is one of the forms of B vitamins and is a micronutrient. Folic acid is used to treat anemia caused by its deficiency. Deficiency also causes neural tube defects during development. It is essential to make
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