Abstract
A LARGE proportion of the phosphorus present in rice, as in all other cereals, exists as the poorly utilizable phytin1, and to this fact is ascribed the rachitogenic action of cereal diets2.
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SREENIVASAN, A. Availability of Phosphorus in Rice. Nature 143, 244–245 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143244c0
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