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Faber, Mieke; Oelofse, Andre; Van Jaarsveld, P.J.; Wenhold, Friedeburg Anna Maria; Jansen van Rensburg, W.S. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-02)OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to determine the availability of, access to and nutrition-related uses of African leafy vegetables in rural and urban households; and to determine the β-carotene content of the ...
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Jansen van Rensburg, W.S.; Van Averbeke, W.; Slabbert, R.; Faber, Mieke; Van Jaarsveld, P.; Van Heerden, I.; Wenhold, Friedeburg Anna Maria; Oelofse, Andre (Water Research Council, 2007-06)In this article the term 'African leafy vegetables' was adopted to refer to the collective of plant species which are used as leafy vegetables and which are referred to as morogo or imifino by African people in South Africa. ...
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Mokori, A.; Hendriks, Sheryl L.; Oriskushaba, P.; Oelofse, Andre (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013)OBJECTIVES : Evaluate changes in underweight and wasting, feeding patterns, water use, sanitation, immunisation, disease episodes, deworming and vitamin A supplementation in children aged 6-23 months in returnee villages ...
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Kruger, Johanita; Oelofse, Andre; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall) (Informa Healthcare, 2014-08)Soaking of cereal grains has been suggested as a method to reduce their phytate content and hence increase their mineral availability. Whole and milled wholegrain, normal and low phytate sorghum and normal maize were ...
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Kruger, Johanita; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall); Oelofse, Andre (Elsevier, 2012-03)Improved iron availability from sorghum porridges will benefit many malnourished communities in rural Africa, where there is a high prevalence of iron deficiency. This research compared the efficacy of reducing sorghum ...
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Ongosi, Anita Nyaboke; Gericke, Gerda J.; Mbuthia, E.; Oelofse, Andre (African Scholary Science Communications Trust, 2014-04)Breastfeeding has profound benefits for the child and has always been the gold standard for infant feeding. It is also an integral part in the physiologic completion of the reproductive cycle of mammals, including humans ...
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Oelofse, Andre; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall); MacIntyre, Una Elizabeth (Elsevier, 2015-10)Indigenous plant foods play a major nutritional and cultural role in the diets of rural people in Africa. However, they can contain high levels of antinutrients, which may exacerbate nutritional and health problems in ...
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Wenhold, Friedeburg Anna Maria; Faber, Mieke; Van Averbeke, W.; Oelofse, Andre; Van Jaarsveld, P.; Jansen van Rensburg, W.S.; Van Heerden, I.; Slabbert, R. (Water Research Council, 2007-06)Promoting household food security and reducing malnutrition rates of a growing population with the same amount of water is a challenge facing South African nutritionists and agriculturalists alike. Apart from non-food ...
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Kruger, Johanita; Oelofse, Andre; Taylor, Janet; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-05)Brewing and bioethanol production with raw grain and exogenous enzymes produces wort with satisfactory hot water extract (HWE). However, the free amino nitrogen (FAN) and mineral content can be too low, owing to low protein ...
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Schoeman, Serina; Smuts, C.M.; Faber, Mieke; Van Stuijvenberg, M.; Oelofse, Andre; Laubscher, J.A.; Benade, A.J.S.; Dhansay, M.A. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-03)OBJECTIVE: To assess primary health care (PHC) facility infrastructure and services, and the nutritional status of 0 to 71-month-old children and their caregivers attending PHC facilities in the Eastern Cape (EC) and ...
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Palic, D.; Modika, Kedibone Yvonne; Oelofse, Andre; Morey, Liesl; Coetzee, S.E. (South African Society for Animal Science, 2011)There are a number of laboratory methods that could be used to estimate the adequacy of full-fat soybean (FFSB) heat treatment. The protein despersibility index (PDI) has been claimed to have the most constant response to ...
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Serrem, C.A. (Charlotte Atsango); De Kock, Henrietta Letitia; Oelofse, Andre; Taylor, J.R.N. (John Reginald Nuttall) (Wiley, 2011-08)BACKGROUND: Protein-Energy Malnutrition (PEM) remains a major deficiency disease among children in developing countries. The protein nutritional quality of soy fortified sorghum biscuits was evaluated with respect to their ...
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Courtman, C.; Van Ryssen, J.B.J.; Oelofse, Andre (South African Society for Animal Science, 2012)A total of 896 maize grain samples were obtained from all the maize silos throughout South Africa (231 silos) and analysed for selenium (Se) content. This information was used to compile a regional distribution map of the ...
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