Is dietary phosphate fortification of value as an anticaries agent?

Analysis of ash suspension obtained from Piper aduncum that claimed to cure cancer in Papua New Guinea

“…This fact is further supported by the inductively coupled plasma data for the white ash obtained from water-insoluble carbonaceous material. Some of the species that play structural roles in the body like calcium and phosphate ions are available in the soluble portion, though in low quantities, and hence would play defensive action against dental caries [20]. While Na, Mg, Ca and Fe contents were decreased on moving from young to matured species, cations like K and B were increased and the remaining cations showed no change between the two species.…”