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Article: Nutrition hotline.
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- Vegetarian Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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This issue's Nutrition Hotline addresses two concerns about soymilk: whether the body can absorb some calcium compounds better than others and if carrageenan in some brands of soymilk is dangerous. It also looks into the health benefits of a vegetarian diet for African-Americans.
QUESTION: "I use fortified soymilk as a source of calcium. The brand that I use is fortified with calcium carbonate. I read in Vegetarian Journal (
) that calcium from soymilk is absorbed at only about 75 percent of the amount absorbed from cow's milk, but that study used soymilk fortified with tricalcium phosphate. Is the calcium from calcium carbonate better absorbed than the calcium ...