MANIPAL: In an attempt to remove malnutrition amongst kids, interdisciplinary students of Manipal Academy of Higher Education have advanced a low value power bar ---‘Bargrains’.
The bar is a combination of wholesome grains and millets bound along with herbal sweetener, jaggery. The concept which was innovated right through the Grand Challenge Udupi, not most effective certified in the most sensible three teams however gained a prize. The group additional objectives to expand the theory forward and commercialize it.
Chef Okay Thirugnanasambantham, most important of Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGSHA), said that it was made the use of grains and millets that we generally tend to disregard in our regular diet. It is a unique recipe that combines all issues healthy, components whose inclusion in our diet is very important.
He added that this yr’s theme for ‘The Grand Challenge Udupi’ was ‘Empowering the Under-served’.
This low value power bar was made with the vision of serving a healthier selection to kids beneath the age of five, focusing on the underprivileged, poverty-stricken who don’t devour enough or the desired energy in an afternoon. The bar is a candy mixture of pearl millet, kodu millet, broken wheat, peanuts and lots of extra grains and millets.
Team mentor and chef Thirugnanasambantham added that in the end they target to approach the federal government and paintings at the side of them to make these bars part of the meals equipped to kids in schools particularly in anganwadi centres. Currently vegetarian kids are given bananas whilst others eggs. Bargrains can change both banana and egg as it incorporates the entire wanted nutrients. “Although our focus staff constituted of underprivileged and undernourished, the samples of our very personal power bar have inspired everyone who has tasted them,” he said including that bar can value as little as Rs five.
The bar is a combination of wholesome grains and millets bound along with herbal sweetener, jaggery. The concept which was innovated right through the Grand Challenge Udupi, not most effective certified in the most sensible three teams however gained a prize. The group additional objectives to expand the theory forward and commercialize it.
Chef Okay Thirugnanasambantham, most important of Welcomgroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration (WGSHA), said that it was made the use of grains and millets that we generally tend to disregard in our regular diet. It is a unique recipe that combines all issues healthy, components whose inclusion in our diet is very important.
He added that this yr’s theme for ‘The Grand Challenge Udupi’ was ‘Empowering the Under-served’.
This low value power bar was made with the vision of serving a healthier selection to kids beneath the age of five, focusing on the underprivileged, poverty-stricken who don’t devour enough or the desired energy in an afternoon. The bar is a candy mixture of pearl millet, kodu millet, broken wheat, peanuts and lots of extra grains and millets.
Team mentor and chef Thirugnanasambantham added that in the end they target to approach the federal government and paintings at the side of them to make these bars part of the meals equipped to kids in schools particularly in anganwadi centres. Currently vegetarian kids are given bananas whilst others eggs. Bargrains can change both banana and egg as it incorporates the entire wanted nutrients. “Although our focus staff constituted of underprivileged and undernourished, the samples of our very personal power bar have inspired everyone who has tasted them,” he said including that bar can value as little as Rs five.
Manipal: Bargrains aims to tackle malnutrition
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