Clinical evaluation of pearl millet conophor weaning mix as supplementary food for Nigerian children

• Autor(a) principal: Akeredolu,I. A.
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Outros Autores: Addo,A. A., Akeredolu,O. A.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132005000500004
• topic: Clinical Evaluation; Conophor; Weaning Mix; Millet and Supplementary Food

The purpose of this study was to formulate a weaning diet from pearl millet-conophor nut flour that would promote growth. For PER, BV, NPU and TD values, casein diet was the most superior while millet-conophor diet and soy-ogi diet compared favourably with each other. For the clinical measurements of the experimental rats on the soy -ogi diet and millet-conophor diet, apart from the urinary urea level of the group on millet conophor diet which was much higher than soy-ogi, there was no difference in any of the other parameters measured. It was therefore, concluded that the millet-conophor, diet was favourably well with the soy-ogi.