Driven by the vision of a world without malnutrition, the

students of classes IX and XI developed a low cost

nutritional supplement

‘NIRMALVITA’

CBSE SCIENCE PROJECT

Objectives • Understand nutritional requirements and relate early

childhood and school age dietary needs and choices

with deficiency diseases.

• Explore low cost nutritious food supplements.

• Develop a recipe book and formulate an alternative to

expensive health drinks.

• Illustrate facts about good and bad eating habits.

Research

• Students collected news articles and researched how

dietary deficiencies impair children’s physical,

mental and cognitive development and also their

impact on survival rates.

Figures given are in percentage of the total population.

Students analyzed the relation of deficiency diseases with

wealth index and dietary habits.

Parameters were defined to diagnose various deficiencies and

the data was analyzed to relate early childhood with school

age nutritional needs and dietary choices.

Deficiency diseases and their

symptoms…

Vitamin Deficiency Disease Symptoms

Vitamin-A Night blindness Poor vision

Vitamin-B Beriberi Weak muscles

Vitamin-C

Scurvy Bleeding gums

Vitamin-D

Rickets Soft and brittle bones

Mineral Deficiency Disease Symptoms

Iron Anemia Weakness

Iodine Goiter Swollen glands of neck,

weight loss

Calcium Decay of bones and teeth Weak bones, decaying teeth

Deficiency diseases and their

symptoms…

Recipe Book

The students also

put together their

own recipe book of

low cost nutritious

food items.

NIRMALVITA

Extensive research

was done on the

nutrients present in

health supplements

available in the

market, on the basis

of which, we

developed our own

health supplement.

Ingredients :

• Wheat flour(Whole)-100 g.

• Bengal gram (Roasted & de-husked)-30 g.

• Groundnut(Roasted)-20 g.

• Chidwa-100g

• Soyabean-20g

• Ragi -70g

• Roasted til powder-10g

• Sugar-50g

• Salt -A pinch

Recipe

1. Roast wheat flour.

2. Remove the skin of groundnut.

3. Crush chidwa and soyabean and mix with

ragi.

4. Make powder of roasted Bengal grams and

groundnut. Mix with Wheat flour thoroughly.

5. Add til powder.

6. Store in an airtight container.

Nutritive Value Per 100 gms :

▫ Calories 377

▫ Protein 16.1 g.

▫ Iron 5.54 mg.

▫ Carotene 41 .93 μg.

Cost per packet: Rs. 125 for 500 grams.