Pushpamma, P. and Devi, C.A. (1979) Nutritional quality of sorghum and legume based food mixtures for infants and pre-school children. 1. Nutrition Reports International, 19 (5). pp. 635-641.
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1. Rats were given diets with about 10% protein supplied by sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) and a legume in a 2:1 ratio. The legumes used were red gram (Cajanus cajan), black gram (Phaseolus mungo), Bengal gram (Cicer arietinum) green gram (Phaseolus radiatus), cowpea (Vigna sinensis), horse gram (Dolichos biflorus) and soya bean; all were given raw, boiled or roasted with sorghum. Protein efficiency ratio (PER) of sorghum and raw cowpea was significantly greater than that of other combinations. There was little difference in PER among the other combinations with the exception of sorghum and horse gram which was less than the others. The digestibility of red gram and horse gram combinations was less than that of the others. Heat treatments usually improved digestibility. Heat treatments increased the biological value of horse gram, soya bean, Bengal gram, black gram and cowpea combinations but decreased that of green gram and sorghum
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Faculty of Home Science, AP Agricultural University, Hyderabad-4, India |
| Subjects: | Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2012 04:00 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2012 04:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9035 |
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