Danish firm launches vitamin-rich gum for 3rd world kids

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Friday, 6 November 2009

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Dmitry Melnikov

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A Danish firm has launched Vitamin A-packed chewing gum in Nairobi to help fight malnutrition among children in developing countries, the company said in a statement Thursday.

Each piece of sugar-free gum in a pack of six contains 375 microgrammes of Vitamin A -- a recommended daily dose by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, according to the manufacturer, Gumlink Group.

The gum is targeted at children aged between three and five years among whom Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness and illnesses such as measles and diarrhoea.

The product was launched at a conference on malnutrition earlier this week in Nairobi organised by the Denmark-based think-tank the Copenhagen Consensus Centre.

Gumlink said it was in discussions with the Kenyan government with a view to making the product available on the local market.

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Sugar free?

tommytcg wrote:

Saturday, 7 November 2009 at 02:36 am (UTC)

To keep us out of suspense, would they tell us which sweetener is used, the neuro-toxic aspartame with its over 20 harmful side effects, or the stevia leaf, which is healthgiving. Recommended daily allowances are a purely theoretical amount of a nutrient that MAY prevent a deficiency disease. An optimum amount would have been fairer to the buyer, but that would be anathema to doctors and dieticians, who discourage supplementation beyond the almost totally useless RDAs, with some RDA products containing syntheitc vitamins, of no use to man or beast..

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