Folic acid-rich eggs: a good dietary source for improved nutrition.

The high-quality functional animal product innovation team of Beijing Institute of Livestock and Veterinary Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences has recently successfully developed and established a technical system for the production and product quality control of folic acid-rich eggs, providing scientific and technological support for the development of functional egg industry. The findings were published online in the academic journal Food Chemistry.
, according to the team's lead researcher Zhang Junmin, folic acid is the human body's essential micronutrients, inadequate intake can easily lead to anemia in pregnant women, fetal neural tube defects and other diseases. At present, more than 50 countries around the world to implement folic acid strengthening policy, but the commonly used folic acid supplements are mostly oxidized synthetic folic acid, excessive intake of adverse to the human body, and MDFC reductase polymorphism population can not effectively convert it into a biologically active form of 5-methyl tethydropholic acid, can not be used efficiently. Therefore, it is of great significance to carry out the research on folic acid production technology and folic acid morphological detection in eggs to improve the dietary folic acid level of Chinese residents.
this study, in view of the problem of unclear folic acid abundance law and lack of folic acid morphological detection technology in eggs, the system reveals the law of different levels of folic acid in japanese grain to the egg. The study found that the appropriate abundance of 116 micrograms / piece, more than three times the average egg, an egg folic acid content can reach the National Health Commission recommended intake of 29%.
further improved the pre-treatment method and realized the efficient detection of 8 forms of folic acid in view of the problems such as the long time-consuming traditional folic acid detection method and the inability to achieve simultaneous detection of various forms. The study found that folic acid in folic acid-rich eggs is mainly based on the easy-to-absorb active form of 5-methyl tethydrofolic acid. Zhang Junmin said that the above-mentioned results show that folic acid-rich eggs can be used as a good dietary source to improve the nutritional status of folic acid in China's residents.
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