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Drumstick Vegetable
14. July 2011 by admin.
Moringa and other highly nutritious plant resources: Strategies, standards and markets for a
better impact on nutrition in Africa. Accra, Ghana, November 16-18, 2006
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NUTRITIONAL POTENTIAL OF DRUMSTICK LEAVES: AN INDIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Dr Vanisha S. Nambiar
Department of Foods and Nutrition
A WHO-Collaborating Center for Nutrition Research
The Maharaja SayajiRao University of Baroda
Vadodara 390002. Gujarat. India.
Email: vanisha_nam@yahoo.com
In today’s world, a double burden of malnutrition is the concern of the nutritionists, as we
see under nutrition as well as over nutrition on the rise in both the developed as well as
the developing countries. Both macro as well as micronutrient deficiencies hinder the
national economic development as well as the development of individual human
potential. Children are frequently the victims of micronutrient deficiencies and failure to
overcome micronutrient malnutrition in a sustainable fashion jeopardizes a nation’s
future.
Amongst the malnutrition in children, the most significant ones are the deficiencies of
Vitamin A (VAD), iron, calcium and folic acid. These nutrient deficiencies are generally
referred to as the “diseases of poverty in the midst of plenty”. Especially, in a bio-diverse
country, like India, where, there are plenty of plant foods available at low-cost but are
underutilized. Therefore, identification of locally available, cheap and nutritious foods is
the call of the hour. This alone is the logical and sustainable strategy to avoid both
nutritional deficiencies as well as diseases due to macro-nutrient excess.
To bring about dietary modification, it is important to both improve the availability of
plant foods. Various approaches have been suggested, these include a) Nutrition
education for communication to improve practices related to consumption of available
plant foods, often using a social marketing approach. b) Horticultural interventions. c)
Economic/food policies affecting availability, price and effective demand of nutritious
plant foods. d) Technological advances concerning food preservation, plant breeding, etc.
Out of these the food-based strategies :
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