ibps-so 2016 · Question 380 of 394

A dairy co-operative nanced by the branch is drafting the nutrition paragraph of the publicity material for its liquid milk sales, and has asked the eld o cer to check the technical claim it proposes to make. The draft says that milk is the most complete single food available and is the principal dietary source of one particular mineral, which the human body needs in the largest quantity of any mineral, which is stored almost entirely in the bones and the teeth, and whose shortage in the diet of a growing child produces a soft and deformed skeleton. The o cer notes that the same mineral is also required for the clotting of blood and for the contraction of muscle, and that the draft must name it correctly, since the co-operative proposes to print the claim on every sachet. The mineral so described, a major nutrient for the human body, is

1. ACalciumCorrect
2. BIron
3. CIodine
4. DSodium
5. EFluorine