The Nutritive Value of Single Foods

Nutritive value of some commercial weaning and supplementary foods.

Some locally available commercial weaning and supplementary foods were tested for their nutritive value and compared with milk alone or in combination of milk with wheat or wheat bread. Milk alone and Complan were found to be nutritionally superior to all other recipes. Wheat and milk combination were better than Cerelac and Farex in milk and at the same time much cheaper than the commercial we...

The Nutritive Value of Indian Foods and the Planning of Diets

The effect of processing on the nutritive value of flesh foods.

Table I shows the nutritional contribution made by flesh foods (i.e. meat, fish, poultry and egg products) to the diet in Britain in 1969 and underlines the importance of these foods in the supply of fat, protein and vitamins A, D and those of the B complex. It will be demonstrated that processing of these foods can cause alterations in protein availability and loss of vitamins, and these aspec...

Nutritive Value of Sawdust

The present study was undertaken to observe the chemical composition of different types of sawdust available in the urban and peri-urban areas of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Twenty different types of sawdust from different plants were collected from study areas. Chemical analyses of the samples were carried out in triplicate for moisture, dry matter (DM), metabolizable energy (ME), crude protein (C...

Nutritive Value of Rice