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The average price of Vitamin A is $54/kg: https://www.pharmacompass.com/price/vitamin-a https://www.pharmacompass.com/price/vitamin-a . The RDA for kids is arou
by aries1980 7y ago
The average price of Vitamin A is $54/kg: https://www.pharmacompass.com/price/vitamin-a https://www.pharmacompass.com/price/vitamin-a . The RDA for kids is around 0.5 mg, 20,000 kids could be supplemented a day with $54.
100g of GR1 rice is needed to feed one kid, So 2000 kg rice need would provide the same amount of beta-carotine/Vitamin A. Just for Vitamin A point-of-view, I fail to see how is it financially reasonable to choose GR1 over lab-quality Vitamin A for $54 per kg.
- visarga 7y agoBut does it assimilate as well?
- aries1980 7y agoYou mean whether it is biologically available? I guess, the synthesis has been out there since the 1940s, and other procedures has been found in the 1970s: https://community.dur.ac.uk/i.r.baxendale/papers/Tet2016.72.1645.pdf https://community.dur.ac.uk/i.r.baxendale/papers/Tet2016.72.... Because these procedures are still in use, my hunch is that they are in use in vain.