Nestle’s enriched CERELAC found to be anti-anaemic

BY NDUMBE BELL GASTON IN DOUALA A study sampling 205 anaemic cases of children under five with Nestlés product of enriched and non-enriched Cerelac made of wheat flour, has demonstrated that the group of children that were fed with Cerelac enriched with iron had anaemic cases reduced by 54% as against only 11%, of children who consumed the non-fortified. The research study carried out again demonstrates that although the World Health Organisation (W.H.O) had approved and recommended the use of iron micronutrients in children’s food drinks and foods, as one of the preventive measures in the fight against anaemia many…