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Improving the nutritional quality of street foods to better meet the micronutrient needs of schoolchildren in urban areas

Year of publication 2006

Author Nutrition Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Micronutrient malnutrition affects one in every three persons living in sub-Saharan Africa. Women and children are most severely affected by micronutrient malnutrition, particularly deficiencies of iron, iodine and vitamin A. Between 40-80 percent of children in the region are iron deficient and forty percent of children under 6 years of age do not get enough vitamin A. For children micronutrient malnutrition affects their health, growth and ability to concentrate in school. Even small improvem ents in the nutritional quality of the foods children consume can increase their micronutrient intake and therefore improve their health.

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