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1. Effects on the General Health and Nutritional Status of Children of Partial Replacement of Rice in a Poor Vegetarian Diet by Tapioca Flour

Author

M. Swaminathan, A. N. Sankaran, V. Subrahmanyan, T. R. Doraiswamy, and Saranya Kumari Reddy

Subjects
Manihot, Nutrition and Dietetics, Diet, Vegetarian, Flour, Nutritional Status, food and beverages, Medicine (miscellaneous), Oryza, Nutritional status, Biology, biology.organism_classification, Child health, Diet, Vegetarian diets, Toxicology, Blood serum, Blood chemistry, Humans, Food science, General health, Child, Edible Grain
Abstract

In previous publications of this series (Subrahmanyan, Murthy & Swaminathan, 1954; Murthy, Swaminathan & Subrahmanyan, 1954) we reported that: (I) replacement of 25 % of rice in a poor rice diet by tapioca flour did not affect the overall nutritive value of the diet as judged by the growth of young rats, and (2) the retention of calcium in adult human beings on a rice-tapioca diet was greater than that observed on a rice diet; the retention of nitrogen was of the same order on both the diets. The present paper describes the results of an experiment carried out to study the effects on the growth and nutritional status of children of replacing 25 % of rice in a poor rice diet by an equal quantity of tapioca flour.

Published
1954