Pushpamma, P. and Ratnakumari, A. and Geervani, P. (1979) Nutritional quality of sorghum and legume based food mixture for infants and pre-school children. 2. Nutrition Reports International, 19 (2). pp. 643-648.
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2. For 1 year 20 preschool children in Andhra Pradesh who attended a creche were given a diet with sorghum and black gram in the same proportions as in part 1. Controls were 20 similar children from the same area who were fed at home. By the end of the year mean weight of the 2 groups had increased by 1.5 and 0.5 kg, height by 8 and 4 cm, head circumference by 2 and 1, arm circumference by 1.7 and 0.5 and chest circumference by 2.8 and 1.0 cm, respectively. Haemoglobin value increased by 2.49 and 0.22 g/100 ml. Nitrogen balance studies with 6 healthy boys and girls 5 to 6 years old and weighing 13 to 14 kg, showed that percentage of N absorption was greater on a diet based on rice and red gram than on diets based on sorghum and black gram and sorghum and red gram
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Faculty of Home Science, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Univ., Hyderabad-AP, India |
| Subjects: | Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2012 05:38 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2012 05:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/9038 |
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