Africa follows the WHO’s paediatric guidelines, which advise ‘fish, meat, eggs, liver every day and as much as possible’. Liver is one of the best food sources of bioavailable iron and vitamin A, but you’d have to eat enormous amounts of liver daily to suffer vitamin A toxicity, Zinn said. And because liver is ‘not the sexiest food … you usually have to combine it with meat to make it palatable, especially for infants’. If vitamin A toxicity occurs at all, it is usually from dietary supplements (synthetic vitamin A), not real food sources, Zinn said. She knew of only one reported case of
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