Nutrient Availability

Part 1 The concept and significance of nutrient bioavailability: nutritional significance of bioavailability, A.E.Bender; conceptual issues concerning the assessment of nutrient bioavailability, D.A.T.Southgate; importance of nutrient availability in relation to trends of food production and consumption, H.R.Mueller; importance of nutrient availability of food production and consumption, G.Mowlah and A.Malek. Part 2 Physical and chemical techniques for the measurement of bioavailability: use of ICP-MS to assess the bioavailability of trace elements in the human diet, B.G.Dalgarno et al; the use of ICP-MS to estimate absorption of iron during normal human pregnancy, P.G.Whittaker et al; fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry for the measurement of zinc absorption in human nutrition studies, J.Eagles et al; determination of absorption of zinc stable isotopes utilizing fast atom bombardment spectrometry, L.V.Miller et al; isotope dilution techniques for the study of zinc bioavailability from whole diets, M.J.Jackson; a double label stable isotope method for measuring calcium absorption from foods, S.J.Fairweather-Tait et al. Part 3 Analytical techniques: methods of inorganic analysis and detection application to biological problems, R.Cornelis; microscopic and energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis of oat bran components before and after "in vivo" digestion, S.H.Yiu; determination of molybodenum in plasma by graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrophotometry, P.C.Morrice et al; NBS standard reference materials for validating determinations of micronutrients and toxic substances in foods, R.Alvarez; trends in the daily dietary intake of minor and trace elements by human subjects - an analytical appraisal, C.V.Iyengar; development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for metallothionein, A.Ghaffar et al; evaluation of the Vitamin B6 content in foods by HPLC analysis, R.Bitsch and J.Moeller; analysis of cis-beta-carotenes in food and colorant additives, S.J.Schwartz and G.L.Catignani; biospecific analysis of vitamins, M.R.A.Morgan et al. Part 4 The importance of speciation: the significance of speciation for predicting mineral bioavailability, W.van Dokkum; modelling bioavailability as a function of speciation using physiocochemical data and computers, M.I.Barnett et al; a stable isotope study of the degree of exchange between extrinsic endogenous zinc during "in vitro" enzyme digestion of food, H.M.Crews et al. Part contents