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Effect of supplementing a poor diet based on rice and wheat consumed by school children with vitamins, minerals, lysine and protein-rich foods, on their growth and nutritional status.

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Title Effect of supplementing a poor diet based on rice and wheat consumed by school children with vitamins, minerals, lysine and protein-rich foods, on their growth and nutritional status.
 
Creator Doraiswamy, T. R.
Daniel, V. A.
Rajalakshmi, D.
Swaminathan, M.
Parpia, H. A. B.
 
Subject 03 Child nutrition
21 Cereals
 
Description A feeding experiment extending over a period of 6 months was conducted
on seven groups of children aged 6-11 years (15 girls per group) subsisting
on a poor diet based on rice and wheat to assess the effedt of different
supplements on their growth and nutritional status. The supplements were as
follows: (i) corn starch,50g; (ii) Sorghum,50g; (iii) Sorghum 50g + vitamins
+ calcium carbonate; (iv) Sorghum 50g + vitamins + calcium carbonate +
lysine; (v) Red gram dhal 50g; (vi) Redgram dhal 50g + vitamins + calcium
carbonate; (vii) low cost protein food based on a 65:25:10 bland of sorghum,
peanut flour and chickpea flour and fortified with vitamins and calcium
carbonate. The results showed that supplements of sorghum fortified with
vitamins, calcium carbonate and lysine or redgram fortified with vitamins
and calcium carbonate, or low cost protein fbod fortified with calcium
carbonate and vitaminsbbrought about highly significant improvements
in the growth and nutritional status of children subsisting on a poor cereal
diet as compared with the experimental group receiving a supplement of 50g
sorghum alone.
 
Date 1971
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://ir.cftri.com/4038/1/Nutrition_Reports_International_1971_3_2_67-78.pdf
Doraiswamy, T. R. and Daniel, V. A. and Rajalakshmi, D. and Swaminathan, M. and Parpia, H. A. B. (1971) Effect of supplementing a poor diet based on rice and wheat consumed by school children with vitamins, minerals, lysine and protein-rich foods, on their growth and nutritional status. Nutrition Reports International, 3 (2). pp. 67-78.