date:Jul 24, 2013
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We are working on increasing the iron, zinc and provitamin A content. These are the nutrients most lacking not only in Brazil, but in the rest of Latin America and the world as well, the cause of what we call hidden hunger, food engineer and a biofort co-ordinator, Marilia Nutti, told Tierramerica.
Nutti said iron was especially important, because half of Brazil's children suffer from some level of iron deficiency.
In addition to the current biofortification project, Brazilian scient