Desai, B.L.M. and Daniel, V.A. and Rao, S.V. and et al, . (1970) Studies on low cost balanced foods suitable for feeding weaned infants in developing countries. 2. Supplementary value of low cost balanced foods based on cereals, cottonseed or peanut flour and Bengal gram flour to poor Indian diets. Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 7 (1). pp. 21-26.
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2. Five different low-cost balanced foods based on mixtures of wheat, ragi, sorghum, Bengal gram, groundnut flour and cottonseed flour and adequately fortified with vitamins A and D, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and Ca salts were prepared. The foods contained from 18.8 to 22.4% protein. Growth studies on weanling rats have shown that replacement of rice, sorghum and ragi in poor Indian diet by the low-cost balanced foods to the extent of 50% made good all the deficiencies in the diet and brought about a significant increase in the mean growth rates of rats from about 7-10 to 14-18 g per week. Complete replacement of the cereal in the diet by the low-cost balanced foods resulted in slightly better growth.-M. N. R.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore-2-A |
| Subjects: | Animal Husbandary Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2012 03:14 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2012 03:15 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/7470 |
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