Table 2.

HCl-extractability and percent bioaccessibility of minerals in pearl millet

	HCl-extractability (%)	Bioaccessibility (%)
Iron	26 (Arora et al. 2003)	10 (Lestienne et al. 2005a)
	19–21 (Badau et al. 2005)	51–55 (Abdalla et al. 2010)
		3–7 (Pushparaj and Urooj 2014)
Zinc	29 (Arora et al. 2003)	14 (Lestienne et al. 2005a)
	51–62 (Badau et al. 2005)	22–26 (Abdalla et al. 2010)