“…Ca 2+ , Cd 2+ , Zn 2+ and Cu 2+ salts tend to be soluble at pH lower than 4-5, whereas Mg-phytate is soluble at acid pH up to pH 7.5 (Brown, Heit, & Ryan, 1961;Nolan, Duffin, & Mcweeny, 1987). In contrast, ferric phytate is insoluble at pH values in the range 1.0-3.5 at equimolar Fe 3+ to phytate ratios and solubility increases above pH 4 (Askar, El-Samahy, & Abd El- Table 1 Phytate content (mg/g on dry matter basis) in plant-derived human food (Greiner & Konietzny, 2006 Formation of insoluble phytate-mineral complexes leads to decrease in mineral availability Brune et al (1992), Iqbal et al (1994), Lopez et al (2002), Konietzny and Greiner (2003) Rickard and Thompson (1997), Selle et al (2000) Lipid Formation of 'lipophytin' complexes, may lead to metallic soaps in gut lumen, resulting in lower lipid availability Matyka et al (1990), Leeson (1993), Vohra and Satyanarayan (2003) Fadeel, 1983). However, solubility studies of bran phytate prove that, at gastric pH (approximately pH 2), Ca actually does not bind and this component does not contribute to the solubility of the Ca ion (Siener, Heynck, & Hesse, 2001).…”