ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2014
Fortification of corn masa flour with folic acid in the United States: an overview of the evidence.
Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Fortification of wheat and maize flour with folic acid for population health outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Biological, dietetic and pharmacological properties of vitamin BNPJ science of food · 2025Review
- Indirect Fortification of Traditional Nixtamalized Tortillas with Nixtamalized Corn Flours.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Advanced Dietary Analysis and Modeling: A Deep Dive into the National Cancer Institute Method.The Journal of nutrition · 2022Article
- Introduction to the SIMPLE Macro, a Tool to Increase the Accessibility of 24-Hour Dietary Recall Analysis and Modeling.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Article
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- Adding folic acid to corn Masa flour: Partnering to improve pregnancy outcomes and reduce health disparities.Preventive medicine · 2018Review
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- Retrospective Assessment of Cost Savings From Prevention: Folic Acid Fortification and Spina Bifida in the U.S.American journal of preventive medicine · 2016Article
- Folate and neural tube defects: The role of supplements and food fortification.Paediatrics & child health · 2016Article
- Preventing folate-related neural tube defects: Problem solved, or not?Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Corn masa flour, used to make products such as corn tortillas, is a staple food for Hispanic populations residing in the United States, particularly among Mexican Americans and Central Americans. Research has indicated that Hispanic women in the United States continue to be at a higher risk of having a neural tube defect-affected pregnancy than women of other races/ethnicities, even after the introduction of folic acid fortification of cereal grain products labeled as "enriched." Corn masa flour has, therefore, been suggested as a potential food vehicle for folic acid in the United States. This paper explores the potential impact that folic acid fortification of corn masa flour could have on the Hispanic population in the United States.
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