014439   Revanwar M;Kulkarni M;Mirali D (Family Resource Management Dep, Collage of Home Science, Marathwada Agricultural Univ, Prbhani, Maharashtra) : Development of preference while purchasing selected household items. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 172-5.

The investigation was undertaken to develop an objective scales of preference while purchasing household items like grocery, clothes, furniture, electrical appliances and bed linen. The developed scales were reliable to decide the factors of preference while purchasing grocery(r = 0.42**), clothes (r = 0.55**), furniture (r = 0.42**), electrical appliance (r = 0.54**) and bed linen (r = 0.59**)

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014438   Pattnaik T (Home Science Dep, O.U.A., Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kendrapara, Orrissa) : Local wisdom and health care practices by farm women in rural areas of Kendrapara Orrissa. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 4-7.

The study was conducted in Kendrapara district of Orissa. The sample consisted of 200 farm women who used their wisdom while taking health care of family members. Following the footprints of their ancestors, they have developed a positive attitude in using the indigenous medicines for their readily available, cost - effective, easy to handle, need no expertise and without any side effect. However, they faced a number of constraints such as lack of technical know how, lack of extension contact, inadequate women programmes, non exposure to mass media, unskilled health personnel, unwillingness of health personnel to work in rural areas, absence of supervision and inadequacies in the existing infrastructure. For the success of such projects, the factors like standardization of indigenous medicines, effective training programme for Anganwadi workers and mid-wives should be taken care of. Organization of orientation programmes for farm women in the rural areas to update their knowledge of using herbal medicines are essential.

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014437   Patnam V N;Shinde V D;Bhalerao V S (Human development and Family Studies Dep, Maratwada Agricultural Univ, Parbhani, Maharastra) : Association between self esteem of rural teenage girls and their family background variables. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 81-5.

The self esteem of one hundred and fifty rural teenage girls of randomly selected 4 villages of Marathwada region was assessed by administering Self Esteem Inventory, their families SES was assessed based on SES scale and their background information was elicited conducting personal interviews with the girls and their parents. A higher percentage of the (41 - 45%) rural teenage girls were assessed to have either average or low levels of self esteem irrespective of their socio economic status. It was found that SES, type, size and social, status of family and parental age and education significantly influenced the self esteem of rural teenage girls irrespective of their socio economic status.

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014436   Pande U;Achaya M (P.G. Home Science Dep, Sardar Patel Univ, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat) : Consumer education: the catalyst for action for consumer protection. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 137-42.

An average Indian consumer is noted for his patience and tolerance. Perhaps because of these two traditional traits and due to the influence of the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita, he considers the receipt of defective goods and services as an act of fate or unfavorable planetary position in his horoscope. When a new television or refrigerator purchased by him turns out to be defective from day one, he takes it reticently, blaming it on his fate or as the consequence of the wrongs committed by him in his previous birth. Very often he is exploited, put to avoidable inconveniences and suffers financial loss. It is rather paradoxical that the customer is advertised as the "king" by the seller and service provider; but in actual practice treated as a slave or servant. Goods are purchased by him along with the label "Items once sold by us will never be received back under any circumstances whatsoever." This unethical, illegal and unilateral declaration has to be viewed in the light of the practice in developed countries where the seller declares, "In case you are not fully satisfied with our product, you can bring the same to us within a month for either replacement or return of your money." This will clearly indicate the level of consumer consciousness. However, things are changing - slowly but steadily - and the momentum has increased considerably since the establishment of consumer courts and due to the efforts of a number of consumer organizations and the media. The next millennium will witness a high degree of consumer awareness and the concepts of "comparative costs", "consumer preference/resistance/abstinence" and "consumer choice" will become vital aspects of the economy.

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014435   Pande U;Acharya M (P.G. Home Science Dep, Sardar Patel Univ, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujrat) : Effectiveness of instructional media for teaching of consumer education. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 150-3.

From the investigation carried out it was observed that majority of the rural and urban respondents had acquired better mean scores regarding general consumer awareness in pre-test. Scores acquired regarding redressal mechanism, advertising gimmicks were poor. Regarding problems faced by consumers in market place, rural respondents had awareness up to certain extent. After the intervention programme, majority of the respondents from urban and rural area's scored the highest in general consumer awareness, the second highest score was in enhancement regarding buying behavior. Regardless of the locale, majority of the respondents showed major change in awareness regarding advertisement misguiding consumers and problem of product and services; whereas problems of weights and measures, cheating by shopkeeper showed fewer enhancements in awareness in spite of intervention. Regarding media effectiveness Participatory Media was the highest (1.0087 _LSD) amongst the rest of the educational media; whereas Semi-Participatory Media scored (0.6616 _LSD) coming on the second position, Non Participatory Media scored the least (0.4321 _LSD) and stood on the third position. Majority (66 per Cent) of the urban respondents acquired good awareness regarding consumerism after imparting intervention program as compared to (46 per cent) rural respondents.

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014434   Nirmal Kaur;Sharma P (Family Resource Management Dep, Collage of Home Science, G.B. Pant Univ of Agricultural and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand) : Interior of toilets, a cuse of injuries among old age people. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 100-2.

This study was planned to sort out the reason behind injuries occurring among old age people in their own home. For this purpose 200 families were selected who were having old age people of Pantnagar and Rudrapur. Research design used for the study was descriptive and purposive sampling was used for data collection. Results showed that there was a lot of reasons present in the interior of their toilets due to which accidents occurred with the old age people.

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014433   Nakhate S S;Ekale J V;Bhosale P B (Extension Education Dep, Collage of Agricultural, Marathwada, Agricultural Univ, Parbhani (M.S.)) : Impact of self help group on socio economic development in Parbhani district of Maharastra. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 39-41.

The investigation was carried out in Parbhani District of Marathwada region of Maharashtra state to know the profile of SHG members and impact of SHG on socio-economic development of its members. Out of 2147 SHGs functioning in the district through DRDA, 12 SHGs organized exclusively by women were selected purposively from Parbhani, Puma and Gangakhed Taluks for the study. Ten members were selected from each SHG by making a sample of 120 respondents drawn by resorting to proportionate random sampling method. The data was collected personally with th help of structured interview schedule. Frequency and percentage were used as statistical tools for analysis. Finding showed that majority of SHG members were young, educated up to Middle school level, had Rs. 18001 to 40000 annual income level with medium family size. Regarding occupation, majority of them had business, service, labour followed by farming as a occupation with satisfactory family climate and low social participation. In respect of impact of SHG on socio-economic development of it's members, it was observed that majority of them stated that, there were change in their income level up to 35 per cent, education aspects, food habits, material possession, employment while medium change in thrift habit. Regarding overall impact of SHG, it was found low on its members.

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014432   Mathur M;Parihar N (Home science Dep, Jai Naraian Vyas Univ, Jodhpur, Rajasthan) : Breast feeding practices prevailing in western Rajasthan (urban and rural community). Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 111-16.

Breast feeding were assessed by 600 mother's responses using self structured questionnaire. Mother's knowledge regarding brest feeding was recorded. Cause of inappropriate breast feeding practices was ascertained by open ended questions. Individually 61.11% respondents received information about breast feeding from friends in urban community whereas 38.89% in rural community. 85% urban respondents gave colostrum to their children due to the advice of the doctors and health workers in the hospital whereas 60% rural respondents did not give colostrum to their children due to some traditional believes and myths. Individually 86.33% rural respondents fed their babies in either sitting or sleeping position whereas 48.33% urban respondents fed their baby only in sitting position. 45.00% urban respondents continued breast feeding even after one year and 63.67% rural respondents continued breast feeding for same period. Breast feeding was almost proper and knowledge importance of colostrum were known to both in urban and rural mothers.

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014431   Khatoon J;Dayal R (Ffamily Resource Management Dep, M.A. Bai Collage of Home Scienc, C.S.A. Univ of Agricultural and Techonology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) : Assessment of occupational stress among textile industrial workers in Kanpur Nagar, Uttar Pradesh. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 160-2.

The study was conducted in Lal Imali textile mill of Kanpur Nagar to assess the occupational stress in industrial workers. A sample of 90 workers with >35 years age group were randomly selected from various units. Data were collected through interview cum experimental method. It was observed that the highest noise level (117.8db) was recorded in Weaving unit and minimum (60.00db) in Administration unit. Maximum (66.66%) respondents "Always" faced problem of excess noisy environment and agreed with the physical stress because of low wages and no appreciation of work (Rank I) being the main reason of stress among industrial workers.

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014430   Khatoon J;Dayal R (Family Resource Development Dep, M.A. Bai College of Home Science, C.S.A. Univ of Agricultural and Tech, Kanpur) : Postural analysis of Lumbo-Sacral region of rural women performing dish washing activity in Deoria district (U.P). Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 135-6.

The study was carried out in villages Babhnauli and Kataura of Deoria district of U.P. state for postural analysis of lumbo-sacral region of rural women while dish washing. Multistage random sampling procedure was adopted to select the sample for the study. Descriptive cum experimental research design was used in the present study. Data were analyzed with the suitable statistical tools. The result of the study indicated that majority (45%) of the respondents belonged to the age group less than 30 years and were illiterate, while assessing body mass index for physical fitness maximum (75%) respondents belonged to the category 22.88 were found to be normal. Maximum angle of deviation of rural women was found 70° for dishwashing and were suffering from body pain.

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014429   Kavita Devi;Duhan K;Sangwan S (Human Development and Family Studies Dep, Collage of Home Science, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar, Haryana) : Relationship of micro and meso human ecological environment on adolescent's problems in single parent families. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 107-10.

The study was undertaken with the aim to delineate the human ecological factors affecting various problems of adolescents in rural and urban single parent families. The study was carried out in randomly selected Hisar district of Haryana state. City area of the selected district was taken purposively to have urban respondents. From the selected city area, two senior secondary schools were selected randomly. From the selected district, two villages were selected randomly. Three senior secondary schools were selected purposely from the selected villages. A sample of 120 adolescents (15-19 years) was drawn purposively from rural and urban city areas. The micro system variables such as sex, landholding, family income, adolescent's relation with grandparents and activities at school were found significantly associated with social, economic and emotional problems of adolescents. The mesosystem variables such as occupation of parents also reported significant association with economic and emotional problems of adolescents.

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014428   Gupta R;Singh K (Home Science Dep, Ginni Devi Girls (P.G.) Collage, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Predesh) : Impact of T.V. advrtisement shown on various kids channel of the health status of S. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 56-9.

Television advertisements directly affect children's eating habits and their consumption pattern. The present study was conducted in order to examine television advertisement and children food consumption while watching TV and desire to purchase goods that they see on television. A questionnaire was prepared in order to study the children's food consumption while shopping along with their parents. The result concluded on the basis of study was found that most of the food advertisement on various kids channel might include: biscuits, wafers, drink concentrate, toffees, and chocolates, convince foods, jams and sauces. The results also revealed that 98% of the respondents ate or drink while watching TV. The most common food products may includes the consumption of chips, chocolated and fried foods. It was also concluded that 82% of the families demand were influenced to some extend by TV ads and 52% of the mother's never refuse their child to purchase new products. The mean intake of advertised food shows that 42% of the respondent's diet was contributed by the advertised food i.e. junk food items.

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014427   Goel D;Gupta S (Food and Nutrition Dep, Ginni Devi Modi Girls (P.G.)Collag, Modinagar, Ghaziabad) : Comparative study on different cooking methods used among working and non working women. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 92-6.

Women are first and fastest solution to reduce poverty and hungry, a study was conducted on food habits and cooking methods used by working and non-working women. A cohort size of 50 women (n=25 working and non working women each), residing in Modinagar both (urban and rural area) were taken with following aims and objectives - to study about the different cooking methods used by working and non-working women, to study nutritional status of the respondents, to aware the respondents about advantages and disadvantages and nutrient losses by different cooking method used for cooking, to provide booklet as a source of knowledge to the respondents, questionnaire methods was used, questions regarding food habits, methods of cooking used by women, to assess the health status of the women through anthropometric measurement.

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014426   Deka M B;Roy S (Collage of Home Science, Assam Univ, Guwahati, Assam) : Development of technology kit for communication empowerment of women extension trainers (WETs). Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 186-9.

014425   Borah M P;Baruah B (Clothing and Textile Dep, College of Home Science, Central Agricultural Univ, Tura, Meghalaya) : Enzymatic treatment on cooking and reeling of muga silk (Antheraea asama) cocoon. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 11-16.

Cocoon is a protective shell made up of a continuous protenious filament spun by the mature silk worm prior to pupation. Cooking of cocoon is essential to secure adequate quantity of reeling ends to reach out a composite thread of high cohesion and size of the yarn. Cooking of muga cocoon with pure papain of concentration 0.05% and Na₂CO₃, 0.20% showed highest breaking load while cocoon treated with latex of concentration 0.05% extracted from fresh green papaya and Na₂C0₃ 0.15% produced yarn of highest breaking load.

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014424   Bilquis;Hemalatha V (A.N.G. Ranga Agricultural Univ, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Rudrpur, Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh) : Impact of amylase diets on the nutrtional levels of preschool children. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 117-18.

A study was under taken to create awareness among the preschool children mothers about the importance of ragi based amylase diets to the children who were in the III grade malnutrition and were fed with the amylase diets supplementation for a period of four months. The pre and post test weights of the both experimental and control group children were recorded and it was found that experimental group children who were fed with the amylase diets had increased their weights and reached to normal level than their counterparts.

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014423   Bhise C D;Ramanama D V;Desetty R V;Patnam V N (Human Development Dep, Smt R.M.P. Home Science Collage, Akluj, Maharashtra) : Correlation between writing errors of the elementary school children and their family background. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 129-32.

A stratified random sample of ninety children out of 314 IV class children, whose mother tongue was Marathi, were selected from Parbhani (MS) based on the magnitude of writing errors committed by them. The common errors in writing made by the elementary school going children were deletions of words, deletion and substitution of letters, grammatical errors in dictated passage and addition, deletion and substitution of numbers in dictated numericals. The results also revealed that higher the levels of education and income of parents, made them to take more efforts directly or indirectly and also to create learning environment which ultimately helped their children to commit less errors in writing.

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014422   Baruah M;Borah S (Family Resource Management Dep, Collage of Home Science, Central Agricultural Univ, Turu (Meghalaya)) : Comparative study of the buying habits of rural and urban women consumers of Meghalaya. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 33-8.

The involvement and influence of the women in the family purchase is not only important for the welfare of the family, it has far reaching impact on life style and standard of living of the country. The present paper is an attempt to study the buying habits of both rural and urban women consumers of Meghalaya. It was found that among the rural women consumers 46% had a good habit while purchasing packaged food items, 43% had a poor habit while purchasing clothes, almost equal distribution i.e. 36% had a good and poor habits while buying cosmetics, 44% had an average habit while buying consumer durables. Among urban consumers 55% had a good habit while buying packaged food item, 45% had a good habit while buying clothes, 53% had good habit while buying cosmetics, 54% had a good habit while buying Consumer durables and 49% had average habit while buying general items.

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014421   Balda S;Duhan K (Human Development and Family Studies Dep, College of Home Science, C.C.S. Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar, Haryana) : Peer relations in primary class children: a comparison of peer nomination and peer ratings. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 143-5.

One hundred children from Hisar city were assessed for sociometric status. The results revealed that the popular children scored significantly higher positive nominations and positive ratings than the rejected children. In contrast, the rejected children scored significantly higher negative nominations and negative ratings than the popular children. Test-retest reliability of rating scale measure was found to be very high than for nomination measure.

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014420   Bajapai A;Kanwar N;Mishra M;Vashishtha P (Facultay of Home Science, C.S.A. Univ of Agiricultural and Techonology, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) : Effect of narcotics on the psychological aspect of farm women. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 180-2.

Narcotics are harmful material, which affects the human health and nutrition. Narcotics have some materials, which are totally prohibited to export and import without Govt. license. Narcotic products are widely considered to be a powerful addicting drug. Narcotics additive in many forms increases the risk of many cancers, heart attack, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes and adverse reproductive outcomes. Narcotics used in the worlds leading cause of death.

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014419   Baba Z A;Hakeem A H;Ganai N A;Malik K.M.; Sheikh T A (Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Skuast-Kulangam, Kupawara, Jammu & Kashmir) : Role of rural women in agriculture and income generating activities. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 1-3.

From the study it is evident that the income generating activities create additional income and employment during the offseason and leisure time, which act as a supplement to the wage earnings and it has to be strengthened and encouraged. More and more training programmes need to be organized and preferably be oriented to products that suit the day to day changes in consumer preferences. To encourage the role of products a sort of community production cum marketing and storage centres should be setup, thereby farm women groups shall be made eligible to enter into the social systems which by it self get spread to all the rural areas so that the socio-economic condition of women could be improved so as to break the hard nuts of poverty. Finally she should be empowered in the overall development of the deprived women folk.

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014418   Ayaskar S R;Kulkarni D N (Home Science Dep, Mahila Kala Mahavidyalaya, Beed, Maharashtra) : Nutritional intake by the pregnant women. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 157-9.

A random sample of 300 pregnant women was selected. The sample of early pregnancy test (1^{st trimester) was selected for this tudy and till delivery they were observed. Among the selected 300 samples of pregnant women, 118 were from rural areas and 182 were from urban area. More per cent of the pregnant women was from urban area. There was significant difference in intake of nutrients by rural and urban women. Nutrient intake of urban women was comporatively higher than the rural sample.}

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014417   Ayaskar S R;Kulkarni D N (Home Science Dep, Mahila Kala Mahavidhyalaya, Beed, Maharastra) : Nutritional and health status of pregnant and lactating women in Parbhani, M.S.. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 67-8.

Lactating women are considered as nutritionally vulnerable. The requirement of nutrients are greater during lactation. Nutritional status of lactating women in India is very poor as the diets are grossly deficient in supplying essential nutrients. Socio-economic status, education and living are affects nutritional status of lactating women.

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014416   Arora S;Amardeep Kaur;Qadiri F (P.G.Home Science Dep, Human Development, Univ of Jammu, Jammu) : Physico-social profile and academic performance of elementary school children in Kashmir valley. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 89-91.

A sample of 60 children was selected with the purpose of knowing their psycho-social development and academic performance. The major tools used were interview schedule, interview guide, Sentence Completion Test and Psycho-Social Problem Checklist. The findings of the study revealed that children who were directly affected by the armed conflict faced more problems regarding psycho-social well being as they have lost one of their parents in militancy. Apart from disturbed psychosocial well being, they were not able to remain in touch with their studies due to low income source which created major hindrance in all aspects of their daily living. The findings of the Sentence Completion Test elucidated that children had shown below average to low scores in the entire three categories i.e. sociability, self-confidence and ambition. These children were revealing more negative responses as they had gone through traumatic situation which made their lives miserable and always being afraid of new situation which effected their confidence. On the other hand, indirectly affected children possessed high scores ill all the applied tests as they were living in congenial families, which helped them to learn and cultivate positive attitude towards themselves. This group of children performed better in academics and showed participative approach in every activity of school and social gathering.

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014415   Arora M;Sharma G (Institute of Home Science, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Univ, Agra, Uttar Pradesh) : Study of the status of self help groups functioning in Kanpur. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 69-72.

Women's role is silently appreciated but without economic recognition, regard and accountability. To improve her dignity and status it is essential to make the woman empowered. In this respect SHGs are making a great contribution. The paper attempts to identify the status of SHGs. Status includes the establishment and years of functioning of SHGs, grading exercises undertaken and revolving fund received by the SHGs. The results are based on the data collected in 2002 from Sarsual block of Kanpur city. It has been clearly observed from the findings that all the SHGs had membership size of 11 to 15 members and had passed the first grading but none of them had passed third grading. SHGs had received their revolving fund from DRDA. Five SHGs had completed some formalities for becoming full-fledged contributory SHGs.

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014414   Anita Singh;Vinita Singh (Food and Nutrition Dep, Sri Agrsen Kanya Autonomous P.G. Collage, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh) : Food habits of pre-school children in rural Varanasi. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 176-9.

The study was conducted on food habits, nature and type of food intake along with frequency of special food taken by the preschool children residing in rural areas of Varanasi. Three hundred preschool children were purposely selected from Cholapur community development block of the district. The information were gathered with the help of "Questionnaire cum Interview Technique". Interview questionnaire contained comprehensive questions related to the study. The data were pretested in tabular form with suitable statistical tests. Though more than half of the overall children (51.33%) were non-vegetarian, but only 8.33% children used to consume this diet regularly. Nearly three fifth female children consumed vegetarian diet. The food habit was found significantly associated with sex of the child (P<0.025) and land holding (P<0.05) by the head of family. Sweet dish was preferred by male children while females liked sour and spicy diets (P<0.001). Although similar food items were provided to the male and female children (P<0.05 NS), but the provision of special diets to the male children by the mother indicated their biased behaviour towards male children and deprival of the female children (P<0.025).

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014413   Agrawal R;Anita Singh (Food and Nutrition Dep, Sri Agrasen Kanya Autonomous P.G. Collage, Varanashi, Uttar Pradesh) : Relationship between neonates Low birth weight (LBW) and maternal parity and addiction in Varanasi, India. Asian J Home Sci 2009, 4(1), 183-5.

The study is an approach to find out the relationship between low birth weight and maternal parity in view of habit of addiction to tobacco and smoking. Two hundred pregnant women, with less than 60 days pregnancy, were registered and followed from Government hospitals in Varanasi. LBW baby and mother pairs were studied after excluding multiple births, normal birth weight and complicated pregnancies. Parity and addiction were interviewed at the time of registration. Simple correlation coefficient (product moment) was computed to find the relationship between maternal parity and LBW. Further ANOVA was used to examine the difference between parity groups (0, 1, 2) with respect to LBW. The relationship between maternal addiction to tobacco and smoking was computed according to point bi-serial method. Overall occurrence of LBW babies was found to be 26%. Significant positive correlation was computed between low birth weight and maternal parity. However, significant negative correlation was seen between LBW and maternal addiction. In addiction, there was significant difference in LBW between different parity groups.

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013423   Mishra B K;Mishra P C (P.G. Dep of Home Science, Sambalpur Univ, Jyoti Vihar-768 019, Email: bkm_su@rediffmail.com) : Nutritional anthropometry and mal-nourishment status among children under 18 years of age around IB thermal power station of Jharsuguda district in Orissa. Bioscan 2009, 4(2), 281-5.

The study is based on sample surveys of households from 13 villages of core zone from ITPS and 7 villages of buffer zone. The study on the nutritional and mal-nourishment status revealed that major proportion of the population belonging to age-group of 5-16 years showed poor nutritional status in comparison to <5 years as well as >16 years. This perhaps indicates that this section of people is not meeting the nutritional needs as per the requirement for the growing period. When scores were assigned on per cent of normal population at each age-group in each village, Phalsmunda, Chharla and Piplikani scored more than 80%, Ubuda, Kushraloi, Pondri, Remenda, Kumbharbandh,Telenpali, Banaharpali, Adhapara, Khadam and Kantitikra scored between 60-80% and rest < 60%. The villages like Binka, Rengali, Dhubabera and Sahajbahal requires immediate intervention to meet their nutritional requirements through awareness campaign and training. Prevalence of higher proportion of normal children in almost all villages might be attributed to longer duration of breast feeding in the locality.

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013422   Benkhayal F A;Al Gazwi S M;Ramesh S;Sateesh Kumar (Food Science and Technology Dep, College of Agricultural Sciences, Omar Al Mukhtar University, Al Beida, Libya, Email: drfaheem.libya@gmail.com) : Biochemical studies of the effect of volatile oil of Thymus capitatus in alloxan-induced diabetic rats. Curr Trends Biotechnol Pharm 2010, 4(1), 519-25.

Administration of thyme oil @ 0.1 mL kg^{-1 body weight orally once daily for 28 days to diabetic rats revealed progressively declined values of serum glucose from 483.30±1.35 mg% on day 0-113.20±1.00 mg% at the end of the trial. Serum total cholesterol levels revealed progressively inclining values till 21 days and thereafter declining to 107.40±1.20 mg% at the end of the trial. However, serum HDL, triglycerides, serum urea nitrogen and creatinine levels remained within normal limits as recorded in glibenclamide treated diabetic rats except a mild increase in ALT and AST levels was recorded on day 7. The histological findings revealed regenerative changes in the pancreas, liver and kidney. The results demonstrated the antihyperglycemic and antilipidemic effects of thyme oil.}

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012385   Panghal R;Boora P;Vandana (Foods and Nutrition Dep, CCS Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar-125 004) : Nutritional evaluation of iron rich Matar prepared from using locally available foodstuffs for pregnant women. Ann agric biol Res 2009, 14(2), 189-94.

Matar was developed by using locally available iron rich foodstuffs. Malar was prepared by incorporating gingelly seeds and dried bengal grain leaves powder into standardized recipe. The product was nutritionally evaluated for proximate composition and available iron. Moisture, prolem fat, fibre and total ash content of supplemented malar was 6.91, 19.30. 30.63, 2.01 and 2.60% respectively. Total energy content in supplemented malar was 509.39 Kcal. A significant (P<0.05) increase was observed when supplemented matar was compared with its control. I'otal iron and ionizablc iron content in supplemented matar was found to be 9.86 and 1.65 mg/ 100 _g Tims. Undeveloped dietary supplement can be used to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable group like pregnant women, lactating women and adolescent girls.

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012384   Panghal R;Boora P;Vandana (Foods and Nutrition Dep, CCS Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar-125 004) : Organoleptic evaluation of dietary supplement (Matar) prepared from locally available foodstuffs. Ann agric biol Res 2009, 14(2), 185-8.

Dietary supplement matar was developed by using locally available iron rich foodstuffs and organoleptically evaluated. Matar was prepared by incorporating gingelly seeds and dried Bengal gram leaves powder into standardized recipe. Malar prepared by using 10% dried bengal gram leaves powder was found acceptable. Although a non-significant difference was observed in organoleptic acceptability between dietary supplement malar and control matar. Thus, the developed dietary supplement can be used to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable group like prcgnant women, lactating women and adolescent girls.

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012383   Aastha (Home Science Dep, Allahabad Agricultural Institute - Deemed Univ, Allahabad-211 007) : Formulation of conventional food products by incorporating carrots (Daucus carota L.). Allahabad Fmr 2009, 65(1), 27-33.

Carrot is the richest source of beta-carotene among all the root vegetables; therefore it holds an important position in the vegetables. It is nutritionally rich and can be blended into a number of recipes. Fresh carrots were incorporated into three recipes, viz. fudge, candy and ketchup using their standard ingredients and methods of preparation. Chocolate was substituted with grated carrots at three different levels-20 percent (T,), 40 percent (T2) and 60 percent (T.,) for fudge. For candy guava pulp was replaced by carrot pulp at three different levels- 20 percent (T^, 40 percent (T,) and 60 percent (T3), and tomato pulp was replaced by carrot pulp at three different levels-20 percent (Tj), 40 percent (T2) and 60 percent (T3) for ketchup. The products were subjected to organoleptic test by a panel of judges using the Nine-point Hedonic scale. Moisture, pH, total soluble solids and beta-carotene contents were estimated by AOAC (1980) methods. In chemical estimation of all the products, moisture and Beta carotene were found to increase with the increase in incorporation levels. Beta-carotene content of all the three products-fudge, candy and ketchup showed that T3 (60 percent) was the best followed by T₂, (40 percent) and T₁ (20 percent), while beta-carotene content of T₀ (control) was least in all the three products. Based on sensory scores, all the products were acceptable with T₃ having the maximum overall acceptability scores for fudge, and T₁ having the maximum overall acceptability for both candy and ketchup. So it was concluded from the results that the products formulated by incorporating carrot at different levels were at par with control/conventional food products.

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009135   Philomenamma J;Saradha Ramadas V (Food Service Management and Dieterics, Avinashilingam Women Univ, Coimbatore-641 043) : Nutritional status based on body mass index and the revalence of anaemia among adult Mannan tribes of Idukki district, Kerala, India. Res Highlight 2010, 20(1), 21-6.

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009134   Padmavathi K V;Jagadeesan G (Home Science Dep, Ch.S.D.St. Theresa's Autonomous College for Women, Eluru, Andhra Pradesh) : Motivating factors of homemakers in dual established families of Andhra Pradesh. Res Highlight 2010, 20(1), 11-20.

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007020   Yaidya D;Rai R D;Sharma P C (Post-harvest Technology Dep, Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan-173 230, Email: devinavaidya@yahoo.com) : Development and quality evaluation of white button mushroom noodles. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(6), 513-15.

Preliminary studies showed that mushrooms could be dehydrated in dehumidified drier at 50±2°C for 7 h with blanching (pre-treatment of water blanching) in water containing 0.05% potassium meta bisulphite, 0.1% citric acid and 125 ppm ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid with a recovery of 9.8%. Mushroom flour prepared as per the method standardized, was utilized for the preparation of mushroom noodles. Noodles of good sensory and functional properties can be prepared using 20 g mushroom flour, 38 g wheat flour, 20 g potato flour, 0.2 g baking powder and 2 ml edible oil. Noodles prepared were found nutritionally good. Aluminum foil (52 gsm) and polythene (40 gsm) pouches were appropriate packaging materials for storage at 48% RH.

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007019   Yadav D N;Chauhan G S;Kumbhar B K (Food Science and Technology Dep, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar-452 017, Email: dnyadav1977@yahoo.co.in) : Optimization of processing variables for the preparation of soy-fortified curd using response surface methodology. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(2), 127-32.

Combinations of milk and soy extract (SE) were used for curd preparation. Central composite rotatable design (CCRD) with 3 independent variables (soy extract, culture level and incubation time) at 5 levels was used to design the experiments. The results showed that with increased addition of SE, the scores of all sensory parameters except texture decreased. Acidity of curd decreased whereas, viscosity increased significantly (p≤0.01) with the increase in the level of SE. The interaction between SE and incubation time increased the acidity and overall acceptability. The optimum conditions recommended are: SE level 25.6%, culture level 2.7% and incubation time 6 h. Addition of SE supplemented the milk with minerals such as Cu, Fe, Mg and Zn, in which milk curd is deficient.

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007018   Venkatesh Murthy K;Umesh Hebbar H;Chetana R; Raghavarao K S M S (Food Engineering Dep, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore-570 020, Email: fed@cftri.res.in ) : Optimization of process parameters for boondi preparation. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(2), 123-6.

Boondi is a deep-fat fried spherical product made out of chickpea/ Bengalgram / besan (Cicer arietinum) flour batter. A continuous boondi making machine (which has both forming and frying units) is designed and developed, in which frying studies on boondi were carried out parallely in order to optimize the design of the fryer. The product quality parameters such as colour (total colour difference), crispness (compressive strength) and shape (sphericity, φ) were considered for optimization of process variables. The batter moisture content and hole diameter of boondi forming unit were varied in the range of 0.52-0.57 g/g of batter (110 g water/100 g of besan flour to 130 g water/100 g of besan flour) and 3-5 mm, respectively. The frying time (90 sec), temperature (185±3°C) and height of fall of batter (80 mm) were kept constant based on the preliminary studies. Optimisation of the frying conditions by response surface methodology, keeping in view the product shape, indicated that crisp boondi having acceptable colour and good shape could be obtained at a moisture content of 0.52-0.54 g/g of batter and 3.0-3.3 mm die diameter.

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007017   Pratibha Singh;Kulshrestha K (NO, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jakhdhar, Rudraprayag-246 439, Email: kalpanak_1903@rediffmail.com) : Nutritional quality of food supplements based on carrot powder and grits. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(1), 99-101.

Carrots were processed to make carrot powder and grits by pressure cooking and drying at 50°C for 18h. These were incorporated into traditional food products at different levels to increase vitamin A precursor levels. Results revealed that these enriched food products are good sources of crude protein, crude fibre, iron, calcium, β-carotene and dietary fibre. Enriched chapati with 15% carrot powder incorporation enriched halwa and sweet enriched dalia with 40 % carrot powder and 40% carrot grits incorporation, respectively, were found most acceptable. Instant halwa formulation also showed good nutrient content per serving.

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007016   Khetarpaul N;Goyal R (Foods and Nutrition Dep, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004, Email: neelamkhetarpaul@gmail.com) : Development of soynutties and fried osy dhal: sensory and nutritional evaluation. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(1), 105-7.

Method for the preparation of soynutties and fried soy dhal (dehusked soy splits) was standardized. Soynutties were prepared from whole soybean by roasting in preheated salt at high temperature (250°C) whereas fried soy dhal was prepared by deep fat frying of dehusked soy splits. Both products were sensorily acceptable.The moisture content in raw soy dhal was 9.8% which decreased significantly (p<0.05) in soynutties and fried soy dhal. There was a marginal change in protein and ash contents of soy products. Fat contents in raw soy dhal and soynutties were 23.4 and 23.2%, respectively whereas it was higher (34.0%) in fried soy dhal. No significant changes were noticed in total, reducing and non reducing sugars contents of soy dhal and its products. Phytic acid and polyphenols contents decreased significantly (p<0.05) in soynutties and fried soy dhal. Protein digestibility (in vitro) of the soy products also improved significantly (p<0.05)(12.6 %) over the control.

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007015   Kanchana S;Raghavan G S V;Sosle V;Gariepy Y (NO, Home Science College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural U, Madurai-625 104, Email: kanchan_vel@yahoo.com) : Quality assessment of dehydrated idli. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(2), 177-9.

Idli was dried by microwave drying (MD), vacuum assisted MD and hot-air drying. Moisture, bulk density, water activity (a_w) and instrumental colour value were studied. Instrumental texture quality was also studied in the fresh and rehydrated idli. Moisture content of dehydrated idli ranged between 6.7 and 9.4% and the a_w was between 0.166 and 0.441. Low power density and low temperature dehydrated idli was acceptable. Rehydration of idli was better in hotair oven drying followed by vacuum assisted MD and domestic MD.

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007014   Joshi P;Jain S (Foods and Nutrition Dep, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture an, Udaipur-313 001, Email: priyanka_fn@yahoo.co.in) : Products from wood apple (Limonia acidissima) fruit and their quality evaluation. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(3), 270-1.

Jelly and jeera lune powder were prepared from wood apple pulp. Results indicated that edible portion of wood apple contains (%) 70.6 moisture, 2.2 protein, 3.3 fat, 1.3 ash, 0.4 fibre, 22.1 carbohydrate and provides 127 kcal energy. The ascorbic acid, Ca, Fe, Na, P, Zn, Cu and Mn (mg/100 g) contents of fruit pulp were 15.9, 3.5, 8.5, 46.5, 386.3, 0.8, 0.5, and 0.7, respectively. The mean sensory acceptability scores on 9-point Hedonic scale of jelly and jeera lune were 8.5 and 8.3, respectively, indicating that both these products were very much liked by the panel members. Jelly provides calories, ascorbic acid and iron while jeera lune powder serves as a dressing for food salads and yoghurts adding aroma, taste and flavour.

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007013   Das H;Naika M;Jayaraman S;Bawa A S (NO, Defence Food Research Lab, Siddarthanagar, Mysore-570 011, Email: himani1970@rediffmail.com) : Effect of processing, preservation and storage on oxytetracycline in spiked milk. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(1), 50-5.

Reduction in oxytetracycline (OTC) was higher at higher storage temperature and at lower spiking level in milk as well as methanol with a greater effect in methanol as compared to milk. This indicated that milk constituents might have a protective effect against the residue reduction. Open heating at atmospheric pressure (97.5±0.5°C), microwave heating, curd fermentation, storage of curd at chill temperature (-6±2°C), acid coagulation at 4.9 pH using 0.2%(w/v) citric acid, khoa (heat coagulate) preparation and spray drying decreased the OTC residues significantly (p<0.01), with the acid coagulation showing the highest decrease. Higher reductions in OTC were observed for microwave heating than atmospheric pressure heating, higher curd inoculum level than lower one, lower spiking levels than higher ones for acid coagulation, heating twice with an intermittent storage than heating once for the same period without storage.

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007012   Chaturvedi R;Srivastava S (Food and Nutrition Dep, College of Home Science G.B.Pant Agriculture and Technology Univ, Pantnagar-263 145, Email: sarita.srivastava@rediffmail.com) : Genotype variatins in physical, nutritional and sensory qualityof popped grains of amber and dark genotypes of finger millet. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(5), 443-6.

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) genotype 'PRM-9802', 'PRM-1', 'PRM-701', 'VL-146', 'VL-315', and 'PES-400', were evaluated for physical properties, popping quality, sensory quality and nutritive value of popped grains. Significant variations were observed between genotypes for different popping characteristics. Amber (light) colour genotype 'PRM-701' reported higher values for thousand kernel weight as well as crude protein, Ca Fe, and in vitro protein digestibility. Prolamin was the major protein fraction and was maximum in amber colour genotype. Positive correlation was observed between flake size and globulin content of the grain. Popped grains of all 6 genotypes were sensorily acceptable.

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007011   Agidi G;Dauda S M;Igbeka J C (NO, National Cereals Research Institute, Badeggi, P.M.B. 8, Bida, Niger State, Nigeria, Email: agidides@yahoo.com) : Effect of variety, pressure and specific volume of steam on the head rice yield of milled parboiled rice. J Fd Sci Technol 2008, 45(3), 282-3.

Effects of variety, steam pressure and specific volume of steam on head rice yield of milled parboiled rice were studied. Rice varieties selected were `Faro 21', `Faro 27', `Faro 29' and `Faro 35'. Four levels each of steam pressure and specific volume of steam were used in parboiling the rice samples with the aid of insulated electric parboiling equipment. The samples were milled after drying and tempering to 13% moisture content. Higher head rice yield of 93.3% was obtained with rice parboiled with the higher process steam pressure (5.5 x 10^{4 N/m2). The second (1.290 m3/kg) level of specific volumes of steam gave higher head rice yield. `Faro 29' gave the highest head rice yield. Regression equations capable of predicting head rice yield at varying steam pressures and specific volumes of steam are also presented.}

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003905   Indrayan A K;Agrawal P;Rathi A K;Ajat Shatru; Agrawal N K;Tyagi D K (Natural Products Lab, Gurukula Kangri University, Hardwar-249 404, Email: akindrayan@yahoo.co.in) : Nutritive value of some indigenous plant rhizomes resembling Ginger. Nat Prod Radiance 2009, 8(5), 507-13.

Rhizomes of certain Ginger like species, viz. Alpinia officinarum Hance, A. galanga Willd., A. zerumbet (Pers.) Burtt & R M Smith (syn. A. speciosa K. Schum.), A. calcarata Rosc. and Kaempferia galanga Linn. have high medicinal value belonging to family Zingiberaceae. These rhizomes have a good nutritive value also (350.9 Cal per 100 g) and are quite rich in protein and carbohydrate, but low in fat. Rhizomes of A. officinarum, A. zerumbet and A. calcarata have high iron content with a moderate and balanced content of carbohydrate, protein, fat and crude fibre. Rhizomes of A. galanga are lowest in fat content but richest in carbohydrate. A. calcarata is lowest in Mn, Ni and K but richest in Ca and Na. Study shows the biologically important metals Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Ca and Na to be sufficient in rhizomes of K. galanga. All these studied materials have a moderate to good antimicrobial activity.

001848   Zanvar V;Rohini Devi;Arya A (Foods and Nutrition Dep, College of Home Science, Marathwada Agricultural Univ, Parbhani-431 402) : Effect of supplementation of biofortified biscuits on haematological parameters of selected adolescent girls of Marathwada region. Indian J Nutr Diet 2008, 45(12), 520-9.

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001847   Yadav A;Sheikh S;Ramesh Chandra;Singh R (Home Science Dep, Allahabad Agricultural Institute-Deemed Univ, Allahabad-211 007) : Nutritional and technological qualities of paneer based dessert prepared from a blend of milk and soymilk. Indian J Nutr Diet 2008, 45(12), 530-3.

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001846   Sood D R;Kalim S;Shilpa (Biochemistry Dep, CCS Haryana Agricultural Univ, Hisar-125 004) : Changes in fatty acid spectrum of potato tubers during refrigerated storage. Indian J Nutr Diet 2008, 45(12), 514-19.

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001845   Kawatra B L;Bakhetia P (Food and Nutrition Dep, College of Home Science, Punjab Agricultural Univ, Ludhiana-141 001, Email: drcbakhetia@hotmail.com) : Consumption of heavy metal and minerals by adult women through food in sewage and tube-well irrigated area around Ludhiana city (Punjab, India). J hum Ecol 2008, 23(4), 351-4.

A dietary survey was carried out during summer and winter seasons on 20-40 years old subjects i.e. 23 and 49 women from sewage and tube well irrigated areas, respectively around Ludhiana city (Punjab, India). Raw food samples from both the areas were analyzed for various minerals. Mineral intake by individual subjects were calculated from the amount of food consumed and mineral contents of foods. The data revealed that intake of lead by women in sewage irrigated area was almost twice the amount compared to women from tube well irrigated area. However, intake of lead was below the maximum tolerable limits, except by women in sewage irrigated area during summer season. Intake of cadmium in both the areas was 2-3 times higher than the prescribed tolerable limits in sewage irrigated area. The intake of nickel was higher by women subjects in sewage irrigated area, however, intake of nickel in both the areas was much below the maximum tolerable limits. Intake of copper was much higher than ICMR's suggested values while that of zinc was comparable to allowances in both areas. Manganese values were significantly higher in women from tube well irrigated area while that of iron was more in women from sewage irrigated area. Mineral intake reflected the mineral content of the foods consumed, because the mineral content of most vegetables was higher in sewage irrigated area except for manganese and zinc. Mineral content of drinking water was not much different.

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024408   Kharwade A R;Nalwade V M;Wakte P S (NO, D.S.M. College, Parbhani-431 401, Email: prashantwakte@rediffmail.com) : Nutritional and microbial quality of street foods. Bionano Front 2009, 2(2), 31-4.

Ten street foods namely Pani puri, bhel, kachori, samosa, wada pav, pav-baji, mirchi-bhaji, ice-cream, kulfi and mix-fruit juice were selected from Parbhani city of Maharashtra to evaluate the nutritional and microbial quality. Result of nutritional quality evaluation indicated that kulfi and ice cream were better than other street foods with respect to calcium content. On the other hand, pav bhaji, wada psv, bhel and kachori were better food with respect to iron content. Microbial analysis indicated that bhel had highest bacterial count followed by pav-bhaji and pani puri whereas mirchi bhaji and samosa had lowest bacteria! count. Mix-fruit-juices and pani puri showed highest SPC whereas mirchi bhaji and samosa had lowest E.Coli Salmonella and Shigella was detected in large amount of foods like pav-bhaji, kulfi and bhel whereas deep fried foods like mirchi-bhaji and samosa contain lowest amount of Salmonella and Shigella. On the whole it was found that the street foods were prepared under insanitary condition which may pose a serious health risk. Hence there is a need to train food vendors in safe and hygienic catering operations and also to consumers regarding risk of consumption of street foods.

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