Role of Consumption of Composite Flour in Management of Lifestyle Disorders

Abstract

Composite flour is a combination of only either various grains or both various grains and vegetables it is a storehouse of various nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and dietary fiber. In the present day, there has been an increased demand for nutritional and health-based variants of food due to changes in lifestyle and socio-economic status. There is no surprise in saying that people are seeing the food being consumed on a day-to-day basis as a status symbol and are striving to get better quality of health through the food they consume and are ready to spend huge amounts of money on the products which are so-called healthy and are being commercially marketed in a smart manner capturing both peoples mind and attention knowing to bring down various lifestyle disorders like Diabetes, Cardiovascular diseases, Hypertension, Cancer, Atherosclerosis, Ischemic stroke, Obesity, Coeliac disease, Alzheimer’s and many other diseases and disorders when consumed frequently in long run. The foods which fall under such category especially are composite flours and ready-to-cook mixes occupying more than 70% of both the food and health industry today being recommended by most of the nutritional experts. This paper is a review-based article collected from various papers focusing on role of consumption of composite flours in management of lifestyle disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc.

An PROXIMATE AND SENSORY EVALUATION OF CAKES FORTIFIED WITH SOYBEAN, PLANTAIN AND SESAME SEED FLOUR FOR FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY

“…Indigenous nutrient dense food/s can be used as composite flour to fortify wheat flour in the bakery industry to substantially increase the amount of bio-available macro and micronutrient/s. Composite flours made from legumes have the advantage of improving overall nutrition (Feyera, 2020;Banua et al, 2021). According to Alliance (2015) Composite flour can also increase the availability, accessibility and acceptability of nutritious foods especially snacks varieties in the local markets, while increasing opportunities for diverse agricultural production systems to be translated into dietary diversification.…”

Research of a Dry Extruded Mixture of Protein Rich Plant Composition

“…Oat (Avena sativa) is a cereal considered as a functional food, with anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant properties, rich in nutrients and fibre necessary for good health (Mitra et al, 2012;Banu et al, 2021). Oat is a high-protein cereal that can be tolerated by most celiac individuals, therefore it is suitable for a glutenfree market, mixtures and other products (Mäkinen et al, 2017;Banu et al, 2021).…”