Effect of a multi-mixture in the nutritional status of preschool children regarding iron

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira da Rocha SANT’ANA, Luciana
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues Ferreira da CRUZ, Ana Cristina, Castro FRANCESCHINI, Sylvia do Carmo, Brunoro COSTA, Neuza Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/9758
• topic: biological availability; nutritional status; iron; nutritional suplement; child, preschool; biodisponibilidade; estado nutricional; ferro; multimistura; pré-escolar

ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a multi-mixture intake on the iron status of pre-schoolchildren from the municipal school network of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. MethodsThirty-six children from three day nurseries of the city participated in the study. Day nursery A received bakeryproducts not supplemented with iron. Day nursery B received bakery products supplemented with iron sulfatein the same amount as that present in multi-mixtures distributed in the third day nursery. The products weredistributed in the morning during 70 days. Anthropometric, dietary and biochemical assessments were doneat the beginning and at the end of the study using the paired t-test at significance level of 0.05, except forhematocrit. In this case, the initial values were compared with the final values using the Wilcoxon test atsignificance level of 0.05. The software Statistical Analyses and Genetics System, version 5.0, from the FederalUniversity of Viçosa was used for the analyses. ResultsThe different sources of iron had no effect since the supplemented groups showed a reduction in the assessedblood levels and this was not observed in the placebo group. ConclusionThe iron given as a supplement did not alter the iron intake by the children and did not improve the assessedblood indexes either, limiting the conclusions of using the multi-mixture studied in this work.