Nutritional anemia is a significant public health concern in India, affecting over 60% of adolescent girls. Inadequate intake of iron-rich foods with low bioavailability of non-heme iron has been considered the primary cause of iron deficiency in developing nations. The present study was an interventional study conducted among 479 rural adolescent girls in the age group of 10-19 years in Bisrakh and Dadri Blocks of the District Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, to investigate the effectiveness of synergistic relationships between nutrient combinations to increase the absorption and bio-availability of non-heme iron and the impact of Nutrition Education to combat iron deficiency anemia. Experimental Group III exhibited the highest increment of their hemoglobin levels (1.67g/dl) after the intervention of both Nutritional Intervention and Nutrition Education for three months. All three experimental groups exhibited an increase in knowledge scores after receiving information regarding Nutrition, compared to those in the Control Group. It was observed that more than 63% of the adolescent girls in experimental Group I had increased their knowledge score after obtaining the information related to nutrition and an Iron vitamin C-rich diet.
Singh et al. (2025) studied this question.