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Full of calcium



New age miracle: Wonder veg.

Scientists in the U.S. say they have created a genetically-engineered carrot that provides extra calcium. They hope that adding the vegetable to a normal diet could help ward off conditions such as brittle bone disease and osteoporosis. Someone eating the new carrot absorbs 41 per cent more calcium than if they ate the old, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study suggests. The calcium-charged vegetable still needs to go through many saf ety trials. “These carrots were grown in carefully monitored and controlled environments,” said Professor Kendal Hirschi of the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas.

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