Nutritional quality of low-cost food supplements for infant feeding

In the present study seven baby food-mixtures were formulated, processed using low-cost extrusion and drum drying techniques. The new food mixtures were constituted from the available dietary staples of relatively low-cost. They were chemically and biologically evaluated and showed to be rich sources of proteins and have high levels of essential amino acids. The protein quality evaluation denote high values for NPR and PER