How can we ensure that we are consuming required nutritional content from biofortified crops? It is a challenge in Tanzania.
Most people don’t know; not all yellow or orange maize have the required amount of Provitamin A contents. Therefore quality assurance is critical to guarantee what declared as Biofortified maize has the needed amount of Provitamin A.
What about beans? The two released varieties, closely resemble some of the common beans that are not high iron beans. High iron beans varieties are possible to be recycled. The iron contents of the biofortified seeds may keep on reducing after few times of recycling of the seeds, taking in mind the possibility of cross-pollination.
A recent study on various markets in East Africa identified that beans claimed to be biofortified based on iron content and bioavailability did not deliver any additional Iron relative to non-biofortified beans (Glahn, Wiesinger, & Lung’aho, 2020).
