Nutritional agents which affect metabolic zinc status

Oberleas, D.; Harland, B.F.; Oberleas, D; Harland, B.F

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Nutritional agents which affect metabolic zinc status

Oberleas, D.; Harland, B.F.

Progress in Clinical and Biological Research 14: 11-27

1977

ISSN/ISBN: 0361-7742

PMID: 203946

Document Number: 115143

As the number of factors which affect zinc absorption and homeostasis increase, it becomes more apparent that the relative zinc status of the population cannot be estimated from the analyzed zinc content of foods. The environment of the small intestine at the time of absorption can only be estimated from the diet fed. Even then since both endogenous and exogenous factors determine the zinc absorbed, the precision of these estimations should allow for large individual variation.