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21 days old rats were fed on iron-deficient diet (7.8 mg Fe kg-1
diet) and the mentioned seven iron containing diets (40 mg Fe kg-1
diet) for 10 days. Rats fed liver diet showed higher iron apparent absorption
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Hb-regeneration efficiency (HRE%) (50.8%), relative efficiency of HRE%
(106.5%), packed cell volume gain (2.22%) and mean corpuscular hemoglobin
concentration (0.64 g dL-1). Liver resulted in an increase
in these parameters when mixed with lentil and spinach diets. However,
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