A small study carried out in Sangli, Maharashtra on 43 women participants to evaluate the effectiveness of tea fortification with folate and vitamin B12 to address anaemia and prevent neural-tube defects in children is riddled with problems.
The results were published in the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health.
The participants were divided into three groups. The first group had 19 women who were given tea fortified with 1 mg folate and 0.1 mg vitamin B12. The second group (19 women) was given tea fortified with 1 mg folate and 0.5 mg vitamin B12. The third was the control group but with a “limited number” of participants (five).
