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Effects of partial replacement of rice, wheat, ragi (Eleusine coracana) by tuber flours on the nutritive value of poor vegeterian diets.

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Title Effects of partial replacement of rice, wheat, ragi (Eleusine coracana) by tuber flours on the nutritive value of poor vegeterian diets.
 
Creator Subramanyan, V.
Murthy, H. B. N.
Swaminathan, M.
 
Subject 02 Potato
16 Nutritive value
 
Description Consequent on the present shortage of rice and other cereals both in India and in other
parts of Asia, it has become increasingly necessary to make up the deficit of starchy
foods from other sources. The most promising sources are roots and tubers like
tapioca and sweet potato which give two to three times higher yields of calories per
acre than the commoner cereals. In fact, in Travancore and certain other parts of
southern India, tapioca already forms a substantial part of the diet of the people.
Tapioca and sweet potato, however, are deficient in proteins, and by themselves can
serve mainly as sources of energy.
In an earlier publication from this laboratory (Murthy, Swaminathan & Subrahmanyan,
1950) it was reported that in experimental animals: (I) poor diets, based
mainly on tapioca or sweet-potato flour, did not support life; (2) addition of groundnut-
cake flour at a level of 20 yo to these diets enhanced the nutritive value of the diets
to an even higher level than that of rice diet; and (3) replacement of rice in a poor rice
diet to the extent of 25 yo by a mixture of four parts of tapioca flour and one part of
groundnut-cake flour produced a marked improvement in the nutritive value of a rice
diet.
Further systematic studies were therefore undertaken with a view to confirming the
above findings, and to find out whether similar beneficial results could be obtained
with other cereals. At the same time, it was considered to be of some practical
importance to investigate the effect on the nutritive value of the rice diet of replacing
varying percentages of rice by tapioca flour.
 
Date 1954
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Subramanyan, V. and Murthy, H. B. N. and Swaminathan, M. (1954) Effects of partial replacement of rice, wheat, ragi (Eleusine coracana) by tuber flours on the nutritive value of poor vegeterian diets. British Journal of Nutrition, 8. pp. 1-10.