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Review
. 2023 Sep 28;15(19):4189.
doi: 10.3390/nu15194189.

Research Progress of Selenium-Enriched Foods

Zhenna Chen  1 , Yiqing Lu  1 , Xiaoling Dun  1 , Xinfa Wang  1 , Hanzhong Wang  1
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Review

Research Progress of Selenium-Enriched Foods

Zhenna Chen et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

Selenium is an essential micronutrient that plays a crucial role in maintaining human health. Selenium deficiency is seriously associated with various diseases such as Keshan disease, Kashin-Beck disease, cataracts, and others. Conversely, selenium supplementation has been found to have multiple effects, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer functions. Compared with inorganic selenium, organic selenium exhibits higher bioactivities and a wider range of safe concentrations. Consequently, there has been a significant development of selenium-enriched foods which contain large amounts of organic selenium in order to improve human health. This review summarizes the physiological role and metabolism of selenium, the development of selenium-enriched foods, the physiological functions of selenium-enriched foods, and provides an analysis of total selenium and its species in selenium-enriched foods, with a view to laying the foundation for selenium-enriched food development.

Keywords: analysis of selenium and its species; physiological functions; selenium; selenium-enriched foods; supplementation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Metabolic pathways of different selenium species in organism.
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Figure 2
Different selenium-enriched foods.
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Figure 3
Physiological functions of selenium-enriched foods.
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