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Folake Oyewole’s doctoral thesis project was inspired, in part, by the potential health benefits of a refreshing drink: Zobo, a hibiscus-based beverage that is popular in Oyewole’s home country of Nigeria.
M.G. Venkatesh Mannar; image credit: University of Toronto Synopsis Venkatesh Mannar wants to make universally consumed salt a medium to tackle iron deficiency. Having travelled to over 50 countries to promote use of fortified salt, his life’s mission is to defeat anaemia with iron-enriched salt. Once he achieves this goal, Mannar hopes to add more essential minerals, turning the humble table salt into a potent public-health tool. By Katie McLeanWhen he was growing up, Venkatesh Mannar and his siblings treated the family saltworks as their playground: they would slide down mountains of salt...