Zinc Content of Cereals and Pulses in Delhi

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  • Shipra Gupta
     ,IN
  • Kirti Arora
     ,IN
  • Geeta Trilok-Kumar
     ,IN

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21048/ijnd.2018.55.2.16049

Keywords:

Zinc, cereals, pulses, food composition tables, nutritive value
Food Composition, Cereals, Pulses

Abstract

Severe zinc deficiency is rare in India but mild to moderate deficiency could be widespread. There is little data on zinc intakes based on nutritional assessment methods, mainly because the Indian Food Composition Tables that were available until recently gave incomplete zinc content values in foods. A pilot study was, therefore, undertaken to assess the zinc content of cereals and pulses consumed in Delhi and to compare the values with those given in the latest Indian Food Composition Tables. Four hundred and twenty six samples of twenty three varieties of cereals / cereal products and fifteen varieties of pulses, collected from wholesale suppliers in the north, south, east and west zones of Delhi, were analyzed for zinc using atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The concentration of zinc in a given cereal or pulse varied widely between the different zones. Cereals like pearl millet, Italian millet, dry maize, whole wheat and its flour and pulses like roasted Bengal gram and dry peas, Bengal gram dhal and lentil dhal were identified as rich sources of zinc. The mean zinc content in most of the foods analysed in the laboratory showed significant differences when compared with the mean values for cereals and pulses reported in the Indian Food Composition Tables given by the National Institute of Nutrition - Indian Council of Medical Research in 2017. A region specific food composition database is urgently needed as there seem to be huge differences in the zinc values of cereals and pulses consumed in Delhi as compared to the average values representative of all states given in the latest food composition database.

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Author Biographies

Shipra Gupta

Ms Shipra Gupta has been teaching various nutrition courses to under-graduate and post-graduate students at the University of Delhi since 1999. She is currently a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Food and Nutrition at the Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi. She is a Gold Medalist and a recipient of FNP Scholarship of FAO and Kingdom of Netherlands. She has undertaken several research projects and published papers in National and International Journals.

Kirti Arora

Ms Kirti Arora has a Master's degree in Food and Nutrition from the Department of Food and Nutrition, Institute of Home Economics,University of Delhi. She works as a part-time counselor in Nutrition and Health Education for Indira Gandhi National Open University and has worked as an educator in various International Schools.

Geeta Trilok-Kumar

Dr Geeta Trilok-Kumar is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi. She has Master's degrees from National Dairy Research Institute, an MS in Nutritional Biochemistry from University of Guelph, Canada and a PhD on Clinical Trials jointly from AIIMS and Delhi University. She received the Commonwealth Fellowship for her post doctoral work at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and a 4-wek NORAD Grant for learning micronutrient analysis at Bergen, Norway. She has several international Grants and publications in high impact National and International Journals to her credit.

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2018-04-04

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Gupta, S., Arora, K., & Trilok-Kumar, G. (2018). Zinc Content of Cereals and Pulses in Delhi. The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, 55(2), 216–225. https://doi.org/10.21048/ijnd.2018.55.2.16049

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