Informatics Publishing Limited

P. K. Taskar ¹, H. Srinivas ¹, A. Paul Jayaraj ¹, M. Narayana Rao ¹, D. Rajalakshmi ¹, R. Rajagopalan ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

Diets based predominantly on a mixture of tapioca and rice or tapioca and maize are deficient in protein, certain vitamins and minerals and are widely consumed by children in several developing countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa. The incidence of protein malnutrition is particularly high among infants and preschool children consuming such diets.

Full Text

     

P. K. Taskar ¹, T. K. Ananthachar ¹, K. R. Kurup ¹, H. Srinivas ¹, M. Narayana Rao ¹, R. Rajagopalan ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

The diets consumed by weaned infants and pre-school children in India and other developing countries consist predominantly of starchy foods and lack in protein rich and protective foods such as milk, meat, fish, eggs etc. Protein malnutrition is widely prevalent in the above age group. During recent years a considerable amount of work has been carried out on the preparation of processed protein foods suitable for supplementing the diets of weaned infants and pre-school children in the developing countries.

Full Text