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P. K. Tasker ¹, D. S. M. Prasad ¹, V. A. Daniel ¹, U. S. V. Acharya ¹, A. A. Joseph ¹, S. Venkat Rao ¹, M. Narayana Rao ¹, D. Rajalakshmi ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹, A. Sreenivasan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

In view of the inadequate supply of milk and other protein-rich foods of animal origin in many developing countries, investigations have been carried out by several workers on the use of protein-rich foods of vegetable origin e.g. oilseed meals and legumes in the treatment and prevention of protein malnutrition in children. The proteins of vegetable origin are, in general, deficient in one or more of the essential amino acids and hence possess a lower nutritive value than animal proteins. It is known, however, that deficiencies of amino acids in individual vegetable proteins could be made up by the use of blends of proteins in suitable proportions. Recent investigations have shown that blends of isolated proteins from peanut and soya bean along with skim milk or casein, possess a high protein efficiency ratio and are highly effective in the treatment of protein malnutrition.

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S. Venkat Rao ¹, V. A. Daniel ¹, A. A. Joseph ¹, A. N. Sankaran ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

The albino rat is being widely used for determining the nutritive value of the proteins of foodstuffs and human dietaries. Among the food proteins, the proteins of egg have been found to possess the highest nutritive value for promoting growth in rats. Egg proteins contain nearly the same amounts of lysine but greater amounts of sulphur amino acids as compared with human mice proteins. Human milk proteins have been found to be adequate for promoting optimum growth in infants.

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S. Venkat Rao ¹, A. A. Joseph ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹, H. A. B. Parpia ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

The diets consumed by a great majority of the human population in the developing countries are deficient in proteins and protein malnutrition is widely prevalent among weaned infants and young children. The problem of providing adequate quantities of protein for the rapidly increasing population has been engaging the attention of research workers and international agencies.

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