Traditional Food and Nutritional Security

Renu Agarwal

• Publisher: NEW INDIA PUBLISHING AGENCY (NIPA)
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9789390175949
• eBook ISBN: 9789390512874
• Topic: Ciencias biológicas
• Subtopic: Calentamiento global y cambio climático

The book aims at creating awareness in nutrition security management and the relation with traditional practices in food. It has also dealt with the progress made on the ways of Nutrition security and different aspects of traditional foods. It is the various plant and animal systems which are the reservoirs of fibre, proteins, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, lipids, flavourants and essential phyto-chemicals. The intake of balanced diet can provide nutrition security. Consumers around the world have been preparing food items for balanced diet which has a direct link towards good human health.The book is very interesting in bridging the traditional foods and their use in nutritional security as it covers the coherence of food supply policies with respect to nutrition and food security. The book has been divided into 13 chapters covering various aspects including those flavouring agents, the principle behind the preparations of the foods, functions of these foods, nutritional value, fortification of foods and policy issues for Nutritional Security and the role of FAO and WHO. Importance of traditional Spices in Foods for Nutritional security has been written in a very comprehensive manner.This book provides a very comprehensive review starting from the introduction of nutrition security to the challenges by the industries. The book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers interested in this topic.

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