Ingredients include dehydrated potatoes, corn and/or sunflower oil, corn meal, potato starch, salt, "sulfate", "niacin", "thiamin mononitrate", "riboflavin", and yeast.
Products in this category must include specified amounts of thiamin, riboflavin, niacin or niacinamide and iron, but not folic acid.
They also contain 9% protein, 9% carbohydrate, and 2% dietary fiber, as well as calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, selenium, iron, thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.
Although the effects of long-term subclinical riboflavin deficiency are unknown, in children this deficiency results in reduced growth.
This diet was, on paper, adequate in all nutrients including riboflavin, which was supplied predominantly from millet.
However, replacing the isolated pigment with riboflavin did not restore enzyme activity, despite their being indistinguishable under spectroscopy.
Riboflavin deficiency can also occur in those with impaired liver function, which prevents proper use of the vitamin.
Riboflavin deficiency is usually found together with other nutrient deficiencies, particularly of the other water-soluble vitamins.
