Table 2.
Total & invitro bioaccessible iron and calcium content of pearl millet milling fractions
| Kalukombu | MRB | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milled fractions | Iron (mg%) | Calcium (mg%) | Iron (mg%) | Calcium (mg%) | ||||
| Total | Bioaccessibility | Total | Bioaccessibility | Total | Bioaccessibility | Total | Bioaccessibility | |
| WF | 5.0c ± 0.24 | 0.16a ± 0.03 (3) | 41.3a ± 4.08 | 30.1b ± 0.37 (73) | 6.4b ± 0.80 | 0.44b ± 0.07 (7) | 40.0a ± 4.45 | 34.6c ± 2.41 (87) |
| SRF | 4.1b ± 0.47 | 0.20b ± 0.05 (5) | 45.5 b ± 1.89 | 22.4a ± 3.64 (50) | 5.8b ± 0.45 | 0.48b ± 0.05 (8) | 47.7b ± 5.20 | 26.1b ± 2.47 (55) |
| BRF | 3.1a ± 0.00 | 0.16a ± 0.01 (5) | 55.2c ± 1.34 | 20.8a ± 1.12 (38) | 4.7a ± 0.70 | 0.20a ± 0.01 (4) | 77.2c ± 7.24 | 15.7a ± 1.11 (20) |
Means followed by different letters in the same column significantly differ (P < 0.05), WF Whole flour; SRF Semi Refined Flour; BRF Bran Rich Fraction. The values in parenthesis are% bioaccessibility of iron/calcium content