Coconut Oil and Palm Oil's Role in Nutrition, Health and National Development: A Review

Overview

Journal Ghana Med J

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2016 Oct 19

PMID 27752194

Citations 46

Authors

Laurene Boateng

Richard Ansong

William B Owusu

Matilda Steiner-Asiedu

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Abstract

Funding: None declared.

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