Implications of dietary antinutrient intake on selected micronutrients in humans and relations: a review

Abstract

 The objective of this paper is to identify the implications of the consumption of dietary antinutrients on selected micronutrients in humans or relations. Humans and animals depend on dietary sources of nutrients for proper functioning and living. Therewith, they consume plant-based materials that contain some special metabolites popularly known as antinutrients. Antinutrients interfere with how the human body utilizes nutrients such as Fe, Zn, I, and relations; and in turn could facilitate malnutrition or deficiencies, affect learning or brain functioning, as well as development of consumers such as young ones, pregnant women, girls. It is therefore important to make a conceptual or reviewed foundation to aid policymakers and the public in taking the right steps to control antinutrients effects on nutritional health. This work reviewed the following and related themes: micronutrient deficiencies involving Fe, I, selected antinutrients affecting selected micronutrients, methods for controlling antinutrients, chemistry of interactions of antinutrients and elemental micronutrients, and approaches for tackling the problems. There is a need for nutritional awareness on how to properly deal with food nowadays.