ASSESSFEED is a project with basis in the EU-funded project ARRAINA, where the aim was to validate new recommendations for supplementation of diets for Atlantic salmon with micronutrients, especially water-soluble vitamins. A feeding trial was conducted, where the control feed (100% NP) contained...

Human primary teeth can give important information about trace element exposure prenatally and in early childhood - the period of tooth formation and the most vulnerable period in life. Trace elements from the environment and from nutrition are built into the tooth tissues during the period of...

There is still no internationally agreed definition of dietary fibre. The recommended daily intake for adults in Nordic countries is 25-39 g. The estimated current intake based on consumer studies is about 18 g and based on wholesale supply and consumption statistics is about 23 g. Cereals provide...

Skeletal levels of Ca and dietary requirements at different ages are examined, and also adaptation to varying Ca intake and utilization, for which vitamin D is essential. Nordic recommended intakes are for men and children of 1-11 years, 600, for women and age group 11-18 years, 800 and for...

A review. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) occurs in foods of animal origin, especially meat and milk products from ruminants. Chemically induced epidermal and gastric tumours in mice and mammary tumours in rats were inhibited by administration of CLA, which also reduced total and low-density...

Published findings, sometimes conflicting, on possible correlation between colon cancer development and fat intake and protective effects of dietary fibre and Ca, notably in milk products, are discussed. The combined effects of amount and type of fat and Ca and amount of wheat bran on the...

Nutritional and psychosocial needs are differentiated. Translation of those needs into an expressed wish for particular foods and modes of eating is examined. The differing approaches and emphases of the individual consumer, nutritionists, persons producing or marketing food and official bodies are ...

Samples of liver from persons in Norway had copper 93 plus or minus 35, zinc 1070 plus or minus 430 and selenium 4.9 plus or minus 1.0 mu mol/kg wet weight. It is concluded that there is no serious deficiency in the intake of those elements in Norway but that intakes may be below optimum.

The chemistry of ascorbic acid, its occurrence in various crop plants, factors that affect the ascorbic acid content of plants, including light, temp. and edaphic factors, its biosynthesis and function in plants, are reviewed.