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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Nutr. 2009 Jun 19;102(8):1195–1202. doi: 10.1017/S0007114509371688

Table 3.

Summary of meal and matrix effects and combined relative bioavailability values for the three test meals

Meal Meal
effect		 Meal effect
(normalised)		 Matrix
effect		 Matrix effect
(normalised)		 Total effect
Convenience 0.88 1.00 1.88 1.00 1.00
Cosmopolitan 1.30 1.48 0.59 0.31 0.46
Animal-oriented 1.13 1.28 0.43 0.23 0.29

Meal effect refers to the effect of meal on absorption of tracer vitamin K1 calculated from AUC measurements of plasma tracer concentration. Matrix effect refers to the bioavailability of vitamin K1 from within the food matrix, relative to the tracer. The total effect is calculated as the product of the meal and matrix effects. Values are normalised to the convenience meal.