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'Supercharged shellfish' could solve global vitamin deficiency

from The Takeout

'Supercharged shellfish' could solve global vitamin deficiency The Takeout There are over two billion people on earth who lack consistent access to nutritious foods, and this week, a team of scientists at Cambridge announced that they have developed a solution that could potentially slash that statistic: supercharged shellfish. In a report published this week in Frontiers in Nutrition, researchers explain that they have developed tiny, nutrient-packed microcapsules, nicknamed “vitamin bullets,” that they feed to the bivalves within eight hours of the bivalves being harvested for consumption. According to the report, oysters that are given vitamin bullets before they’re eaten contain roughly 100 times more vitamin A and 150 times more vitamin D than normal oysters. Eating just two of these fortified oysters would provide the recommended dietary allowance of these vitamins. READ MORE

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