Valorizing okara waste into nutritionally rich polysaccharide/protein-extracts for co-encapsulation of β-carotene and ferrous sulphate as a potential approach to tackle micronutrient malnutrition.

"appendix a supplementary material the following are the supplementary data to this article: supplementary data 1 acknowledgements the authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the (scelse) (moe/rce: m4330019 c70) acrf-tier 1 grant (rt08/19 (s)) and the (opp1199116)."

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"The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) (MOE/RCE: M4330019.C70), Ministry of Education AcRF-Tier 1 grant (RT08/19 (S)), and the 10.13039/100000865Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1199116). Sharad Kharel: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Data curation. Archana Gautam: Writing – original draft, Methodology, Investigation. Manish Mahotra: Investigation, Validation. Nasya Martin Theniko: Investigation, Validation. Say Chye Joachim Loo: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Project administration, Funding acquisition."