NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND SHELF LIFE OF RADIATION PROCESSED HEALTH MIX FOR ANAEMIA

Abstract

Anaemia is a wide-reaching communal health quandary affecting both progressing and progressed countries with chief corollary for human health as well as social and economic advancement. Adolescent age group is the casement of possibility to correct the nutritional status of children. If we intercede rightly during this period we can preclude future outcomes of nutritional deficiencies. The aim is to develop and irradiate Health mix and assess the Nutritional quality and acceptability. The material and methods are the Health Mix in two variations (V1 and V2) was developed to control Anaemia and promote general Health among the adolescent girls. Each variation consisting of 100 g Health Mix provides two laddus (50 g.laddu), the laddus were prepared with addition of (10 g. Jaggery) and (5 g. Ghee) to 100 g of Health. The result is the variation 1 and 2 of Health Mix was supplemented to Adolescent girls aged between 17 to 19 years and having a Haemoglobin levels less than 10 g%. The sample selected consisted of 70 adolescent girls who were willing to take health mix after irradiation with of low-dose irradiation (at 0.25 kGy and 0.75 kGy of $\gamma $- radiation) to improve the microbial safety of Health Mixes developed. The results were statistically analysed by one way analysis of variance with least significant differences procedure at 0.05 levels. The conclusion is the study on “Nutritional Quality and Shelf life of Radiation processed Health mix for Anaemia” among adolescent girls were accepted. The Irradiated Health Mixes did not differ much in their nutritional quality from the non-irradiated samples indicating that the gamma irradiation did not alter the nutrient values as well shelf life of Health mixes.