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. 2012 Nov 20;9(Suppl 1):47–71. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-8709.2012.00449.x

Table 3.

Molar contents of inositol hexaphosphate (IP6 – phytate) and inositols IP4‐IP5. IP4 and IP5 were detected in two different configurations (a and b). IP6 shown as mg/100 g (molar weight 660 g mol−1). Listed by food groups. Product ID description is shown in Table 1

Product ID Composition Inositol phosphates
Primary content Phytate sources IP4a (nmol g−1) IP4b (nmol g−1) IP5a (nmol g−1) IP5b (nmol g−1) IP6 (nmol g−1) IP6 (mg/100 g)
Fortified blended foods
1 Wheat Wheat, soya 0 346 867 0 4 661 308
2 Maize Maize, defatted soya 0 0 402 0 18 898 1247
3 Maize Maize, soya 0 1701 0 2166 16 291 1076
4a Maize Maize, dehulled soya 0 0 0 0 15 301 1001
4b Maize Maize, dehulled soya 0 0 0 1426 15 093 996
5 Maize Maize, dehulled soya 0 115 0 0 9 895 653
6 Wheat Wheat, soya 0 0 0 1471 21 976 1450
7 Wheat Wheat, soya 0 0 0 1343 17 798 1175
17 Wheat Wheat, maize, soya 0 281 418 0 10 574 698
18 Soya Whole wheat, soya isolate 0 585 1015 0 7 441 491
19 Soya Soya‐milk powder‐ 0 110 0 0 2 154 142
Local blended foods
8 Maize, wheat Wheat, maize, chickpea, soya 0 654 964 0 5 142 339
9 Wheat Wheat, rice, soya 0 498 994 0 13 538 894
10 Maize, wheat, soya (1:1:1) Yellow maize, wheat, soya 0 261 693 0 8 018 529
20 Amaranth grain Amaranth grain, maize 0 0 0 0 25 600 1536
21 Rice Rice 0 0 0 0 449 68
Lipid‐based paste
22 Peanut Peanut, soya lipid 0 303 642 0 4 513 298
23 Peanut Peanut 0 252 266 0 10 819 714
24 Peanut Peanut, soya protein 0 647 959 0 6 912 456
25 Peanut Peanut 0 0 401 0 15 979 1055
26 Peanut Peanut 0 200 160 0 5 625 371
27 Peanut Peanut, soya 0 0 0 0 1 106 730
28 Peanut Peanut, soya 0 0 0 353 3 975 262
29 Peanut Peanut, defatted soya 0 0 0 566 8 132 537
30 Peanut Peanut, rice, defatted soya 0 500 0 759 5 348 353
31 Peanut Peanut, soya 236 1533 1891 0 11 540 762
32a Maize Maize, sorghum, soya 72 0 0 0 3 121 206
32b Maize Maize, sorghum, soya 0 0 0 0 5 046 337
33 Peanut Peanut 0 0 357 0 11 865 783
Fortified instant porridges
11 Rice Rice, oat, wholemeal wheat 0 0 673 0 14 332 946
12 Wheat Wholemeal wheat, wheat, oat 0 0 0 0 18 907 1248
13 Wheat Wholemeal wheat, wheat, oat, rye 0 496 880 213 3 857 255
14 Wheat Wholemeal wheat, wheat, oat 0 128 604 0 3 202 211
15 Wheat Wheat, oat 0 696 1124 0 7 892 521
16 Rice Rice, maize 0 0 0 0 11 724 774
‘Semi‐solid’ food (Europe)
34 Wheat Wholemeal wheat, oat, rice 0 0 0 0 18 182 1200
35 Durum whole wheat Whole grain pasta (durum) 735 1255 0 1194 5 175 342
36 Wheat Wheat flour, ‘dietary fibre’ (inulin) 0 0 0 0 16 841 1112