Trial reportNutrition journal2006
The positive impact of red palm oil in school meals on vitamin A status: study in Burkina Faso.
Trial report in Nutrition journal, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03256123 (The Effect of Biscuits Containing Red Palm Oil on School Children With Vitamin A Deficiency in West and East Malaysia), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Effect of Biscuits Containing Red Palm Oil on School Children With Vitamin A Deficiency in West and East Malaysia
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of school-based nutrition interventions in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.Public health nutrition · 2020Pooled it
- The Effect of Red Palm Oil on Vitamin A Deficiency: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2017Pooled it
- Red palm olein biscuit supplementation modulates gut microbiota in vitamin A deficient rural Malaysian schoolchildren: a randomised controlled trial.Nature communications · 2025Trial
- Red palm olein supplementation as a potential preventive solution for xerophthalmia among vitamin A-deficient primary schoolchildren: a cluster randomized controlled trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Trial
- Supplementation of red palm olein-enriched biscuits improves levels of provitamin A carotenes, iron, and erythropoiesis in vitamin A-deficient primary schoolchildren: a double-blinded randomised controlled trial.European journal of nutrition · 2024Trial
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- Red palm olein supplementation on cytokines, endothelial function and lipid profile in centrally overweight individuals: a randomised controlled trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Trial
- Red palm oil-supplemented and biofortified cassava gari increase the carotenoid and retinyl palmitate concentrations of triacylglycerol-rich plasma in women.Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) · 2015Trial
- Supplementation with red palm oil increases β-carotene and vitamin A blood levels in patients with cystic fibrosis.Mediators of inflammation · 2015Trial
- Association between vitamin A status, inflammations, and infections in children 36-59 months of age in rural Burkina Faso: A cross - sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Perception, Knowledge, and Consumption Potential of Crude and Refined Palm Oil in Brazilian Regions.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Knowledge and practices of traditional management of child malnutrition and associated pathologies in Benin.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2024Article
- Serum Carotenoids Reveal Poor Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Schoolchildren in Burkina Faso.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Effect of green leafy vegetables powder on anaemia and vitamin-A status of Ghanaian school children.BMC nutrition · 2018Article
- Vitamin A-fortified cooking oil reduces vitamin A deficiency in infants, young children and women: results from a programme evaluation in Indonesia.Public health nutrition · 2015Article
- A comparison of retinyl palmitate and red palm oil β-carotene as strategies to address Vitamin A deficiency.Nutrients · 2013Review
- Poor nutritional status of schoolchildren in urban and peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso).Nutrition journal · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundVitamin A (VA) deficiency is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and school-age children are a vulnerable group. In Burkina Faso, the production and consumption of red palm oil (RPO) is being promoted as a food supplement for VA. The objective of the study was to assess the impact on serum retinol of adding RPO to school lunch in two test zones of Burkina Faso.
methodsOver one school year, 15 ml RPO was added to individual meals 3 times a week in selected primary schools in two sites. Serum retinol was measured with HPLC at baseline and exactly 12 months later to take account of seasonality. A simple pre-post test design was used in the Kaya area (north-central Burkina), where 239 pupils from 15 intervention schools were randomly selected for the evaluation. In Bogandé (eastern Burkina), 24 schools were randomised for the controlled intervention trial: 8 negative controls (G1) with only the regular school lunch; 8 positive controls (G2) where the pupils received a single VA capsule (60 mg) at the end of the school year; and 8 schools with RPO through the school year (G3). A random sample of 128 pupils in each school group took part in the evaluation.
resultsIn Kaya, serum retinol went from 0.77 +/- 0.37 micromol/L at baseline to 1.07 +/- 0.40 micromol/L one year later (p < 0.001). The rate of low serum retinol (< 0.7 micromol/L) declined from 47.2% to 13.1%. In Bogandé, serum retinol increased significantly (p < 0.001) only in the capsule and RPO groups, going from 0.77 +/- 0.28 to 0.98 +/- 0.33 micromol/L in the former, and from 0.82 +/- 0.3 to 0.98 +/- 0.33 micromol/L in the latter. The rate of low serum retinol went from 46.1 to 17.1% in the VA capsule group and from 40.4% to 14.9% in the RPO group. VA-deficient children benefited the most from the capsule or RPO. Female sex, age and height-for-age were positively associated with the response to VA capsules or RPO.
conclusionRPO given regularly in small amounts appears highly effective in the reduction of VA deficiency. RPO deserves more attention as a food supplement for VA and as a potential source of rural income in Sahelian countries.
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