Jessica Bogard, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Geoffrey C. Marks, Md. Abdul Wahab et al.
Fish, in Bangladesh where malnutrition remains a significant development challenge, is an irreplaceable animal-source food in the diet of millions. However, existing data on the nutrient composition of fish do not reflect the large diversity available and have focused on only a few select nutrients....
Nanna Roos, Md. Abdul Wahab, Chhoun Chamnan, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Fish is important in the diets and livelihoods of many poor people suffering from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. In this article, fish intake in rural Bangladesh and Cambodia and the vitamin A, calcium, iron, and zinc contents and nutrient bioavailability of commonly consumed species are presente...
Nanna Roos, Mohammed Mafizul Islam, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Fish play an important role in the Bangladeshi diet, constituting the main and often irreplaceable animal source food in poor rural households. Fish consumption is dominated by wild small (length 2,500 microg RE/100 g raw edible parts in mola (Amblypharyngodon mola). The study addressed the dietary ...
Torben Larsen, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Katja Kongsbak, Marianne Hansen
The present rat balance study investigated Ca availability from the whole indigenous small fish species, mola (Amblypharyngodon mola) from Bangladesh and from skimmed milk. Four groups of six young male rats each were fed ad libitum with diets containing either small fish or milk, at 100 or 160 g cr...
Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Nanna Roos, Nehad Hassan
In Bangladesh, only 6% of the daily food intake is animal food of which fish accounts for 50%. Rice is the mainstay, making up 60% of the daily food intake. However, many nutrients such as vitamins A and C, iron, calcium, zinc and iodine are not found in rice and have to be obtained from other sourc...
Nanna Roos, Md. Abdul Wahab, Mostafa Ali Reza Hossain, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
BACKGROUND: Fish and fisheries are important for the livelihoods, food, and income of the rural population in Bangladesh. Increased rice production and changing agricultural patterns have resulted in a large decline in inland fisheries. Implementation of carp pond polyculture has been very successfu...
T.S. Amjath-Babu, Timothy J. Krupnik, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Andrew J. McDonald
In the context of developing countries, early evidence suggests that the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food production systems is complex, heterogenous, and dynamic. As such, robust monitoring of the impact of the health crisis and containment measures across agricultural value chains will lik...
Ben Belton, Imke Josepha Mariana van Asseldonk, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Bangladesh has made considerable progress against human development indicators in recent years, but malnutrition resulting from poor dietary diversity and low micronutrient intakes remains entrenched. Fish is central to the Bangladeshi diet and small fish species are an important micronutrient sourc...
Ben Belton, Leah Rosen, Lucinda Middleton, Saadiah Ghazali et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a shock affecting all areas of the global food system. We tracked the impacts of COVID-19 and associated policy responses on the availability and price of aquatic foods and production inputs during 2020, using a high frequency longitudinal survey of 768 respondents in Bangla...
Nanna Roos, Torben Leth, Jette Jakobsen, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Recognising the importance of fish in the Bangladeshi diet, the objective of the present study was to screen commonly consumed fish species for vitamin A content to evaluate the potential of fish as a vitamin A source in food-based strategies to combat vitamin A deficiency. Samples of 26 commonly co...
Jessica Bogard, Sami Farook, Geoffrey C. Marks, Jillian Waid et al.
Malnutrition is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century, with one in three people in the world malnourished, combined with poor diets being the leading cause of the global burden of disease. Fish is an under-recognised and undervalued source of micronutrients, which could play a more signi...
H. N. Larsen, OW Rasmussen, PH Rasmussen, KK Alstrup et al.
Objective To study the influence of parboiling and the severity of the process on glycaemic and insulinaemic responses to rice in type 2 diabetes. Moreover, to examine changes in starch structure related to parboiling, which may affect the metabolic responses and digestibility. Design Nine type 2 di...
Nanna Roos, Md. Mazharul Islam, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
Fish plays an important role in the Bangladeshi diet, constituting the main animal food in rural households. Fish consumption is dominated by wild small (length<25 cm) indigenous fish species (SIS). A study was conducted to evaluate the dietary contribution of vitamin A and calcium from fish in rura...
Ben Belton, M. Karim, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Khondker Murshed-e-Jahan et al.
Fish play a crucial role in the Bangladeshi diet, providing more than 60% of animal source food, representing a crucial source of micro-nutrients, and possessing an extremely strong cultural attachment. Fish (including shrimp and prawn) is the second most valuable agricultural crop, and its producti...
Mrityunjoy Kunda, M.E. Äzim, M. Abdul Wahab, Somen Dewan et al.
The effects of different stocking densities of freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) on its growth and production in relation to the presence of small self-recruiting species mola (Amblypharyngodon mola) were investigated in modified rice fields after rice harvest at Mymensingh, Bangladesh. K...