Fig. 1: Study overview. The study was conducted in Bamako, Mali, shown with a red star.
From: Stunted African toddlers digest and obtain energy from energy-dense thick sorghum porridge
A on the United Nations Geospatial Services map of the Sahel region [44], where sorghum is a locally produced, climate resilient crop (Agnolucci et al. 2020). The study design is depicted in (B). Example PDR and CPDR curves are shown in (C) and (D), respectively. The physiological principle of the breath test is that starch must be digested and metabolized before the 13C tracer appears in the breath, with the steps in this process summarized in (E). The fraction of tracer labeled 13CO2 is proportional to digestion and metabolism of ingested target meal. Created using BioRender.
