Biofortified sweet potatoes as a tool to combat vitamin A deficiency: effect of food processing in carotenoid content.

Biofortified sweet potatoes as a tool to combat vitamin A deficiency: effect of food processing in carotenoid content.

This review presents an overview of biofortification, with an emphasis on orange-flesh sweet potatoes (OFSP), and points out the effects of food processing on nutritional compounds. The identification of cultivars and biofortification actions to obtain biofortified OFSP by conventional breeding are presented as affordable strategies to supply β-carotene to alleviate vitamin A deficiency, without having ethical dilemmas related to transgenics.

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Main Authors: SEVERO, J., SANTOS, F. N. dos, SAMBORSKI, T., MELLO, A. F. S.
Other Authors: JOSEANA SEVERO, Department of Food Production, Campus Santa Rosa, Federal Institute Farroupilha.; FELIPE NARDO DOS SANTOS, Department of Agroindustrial Science and Technology, Federal University of Pelotas; TARCÍSIO SAMBORSKI, Department of Food Production, Campus Santo Augusto, Federal Institute Farroupilha; ALEXANDRE FURTADO SILVEIRA MELLO, CNPH.
Format: Artigo de periódico biblioteca
Language:Ingles
English
Published: 2021-06-07
Subjects:Batata Doce, Caroteno, Ipomoea Batatas., Biofortification, Sweet potatoes, Vitamin A deficiency, Plant breeding, Food technology, Beta-carotene.,
Online Access:http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/1132196
https://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75182021000300414
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Summary:This review presents an overview of biofortification, with an emphasis on orange-flesh sweet potatoes (OFSP), and points out the effects of food processing on nutritional compounds. The identification of cultivars and biofortification actions to obtain biofortified OFSP by conventional breeding are presented as affordable strategies to supply β-carotene to alleviate vitamin A deficiency, without having ethical dilemmas related to transgenics.

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