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ArticleHeliyon2023

Potential health risk and bio-accessibility of metal and minerals in saltpetre (a food additive).

Marian Asantewah Nkansah, Mavis Korankye, Godfred Darko, Matt Dodd, Francis Opoku

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 41% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marian Asantewah NkansahDepartment of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Mavis KorankyeDepartment of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Godfred DarkoDepartment of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Matt DoddSchool of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada.
Francis OpokuDepartment of Chemistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHRoyal Roads University · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food additives are used to enhance freshness, safety, appearance, flavour, and texture of food. Depending on the absorbed dose, exposure method, and length of exposure, heavy metals in diet may have a negative impact on human health. The X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analyzer from Niton Thermo Scientific (Mobile Test S, NDTr-XL3t-86956, com 24) was used in this work to measure the heavy metal content in saltpetre, a food additive that mostly contains potassium nitrate. The average essential metal concentrations in the samples were determined to be 27044.27 ± 10905.18 mg kg

Indexed as

Bio-accessibilityExposureHealth risk assessmentHeavy metalsSaltpetre

Identifiers

PMID36873498
PMCPMC9976209
OpenAlexW4317936966

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