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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 47, 707-709, Copyright © 1988 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
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RP Heaney, CM Weaver and RR Recker
Department of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178.
The absorbability of calcium from spinach was compared with the absorbability of Ca from milk in 13 healthy adults in a randomized cross-over design in which the test meal of either milk or spinach had 200 mg of Ca labeled with 45Ca. Absorption was measured by the standard double-isotope method in which both the test food and the miscible Ca pool are labeled with different Ca tracers. Measurement of both Ca and oxalate in our test spinach revealed a very slight stoichiometric excess of oxalate; hence it is likely that all of the spinach Ca was effectively bound. Absorption was higher from milk in every case, with the mean absorption from milk averaging 27.6% and from spinach, 5.1%. The mean within-subject difference between Ca absorption from milk and from spinach was 22.5 +/- 9.5% (P less than 0.0001). These results conclusively establish that spinach Ca is much less readily available than milk Ca.
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