T. R. Doraiswamy ¹, M. Narayana Rao ¹, A. N. Sankaran ¹, R. Rajagopalan ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

The diets consumed by a great majority of the population in many of the developing countries in the world contain negligible amounts of protein-rich and protective foods. In view of the shortage in the production of milk and other protective foods in these countries, studies have been carried out by several workers on the use of protein-rich foods of vegetable origin as effective supplements to the diets of the vulnerable groups of the population. In the earlier papers, the results of studies on the preparation and nutritive value of a protein food based on a 1:1 blend of full - fat soya flour and edible groundnut flour and fortified with 1% each of 1-lysine and dl-methionine and adequate amounts of calcium salts, vitamins A and D, thiamine and riboflavin, have been reported.

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H. N. Parthasarathy ¹, Myna Panemangalore ¹, M. Narayana Rao ¹, A. N. Sankaran ¹, M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN

Abstract

In previous papers of this series'' it has been reported that supplementation of the diet of undernourished school children (girls aged 9-10 years) daily with 40g of protein food based on a 1:1 blend of groundnut flour and full-fat soya flour fortified with l-lysine, dl-methionine and adequate amounts of calcium salts and vitamins A and D, thiamine and riboflavin brought about a significant improvement in their growth as well as an increase in their retention of N, Ca and P. The present paper describes the results of studies on the digestibility coefficient and biological value of the protein and net protein utilization of rice and rice-protein food diets given to children.

 

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T. R. Doraiswamy ¹, M. R. Chandrasekhara ¹, B. H. Subbarau ¹, A. N. Sankaran ², M. Swaminathan ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, IN
2 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore

Abstract

Milk has been used from times immemorial as a supplement to the diets of weaned infants. Recent investigations have shown tliat skim milk powder together with a vitamin A supplement can also be used as a supplement to the diets of weaned infants. It has the advantage of being less costly than whole milk powder.

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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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