Table 4.

Dietary iron intake before and after introduction of complementary foods (CFs) in the three study groups

		Before CFs			After CFs
Feeding group	Cer	Cer + Fr	M	Cer	Cer + Fr	M
	(n = 22)	(n = 28)	(n = 32)	(n = 22)	(n = 28)	(n = 32)
Iron (mg) (mean ± SE)	0.28 ± 0.01	0.28 ± 0.01	0.29 ± 0.01	16.3 ± 2.5*	21.5 ± 3.4*	0.86 ± 0.08*,**

Dietary Iron intake data from the 3-day food records was calculated using the nutritional analysis software FoodFocus© (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)

^* values superscript letters are significantly different intake within groups (over time) (p < 0.05) by repeated measures ANOVA

^** values superscript letters are significantly different between the groups (p < 0.05) by repeated measures ANOVA