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Combination: As mentioned earlier, no individual food contains ail the nutrients needed by the human body. So, a third method to increase the nutritive value of the food we eat and to ensure a balanced diet, is to eat a judicious combination of foods which wilt together satisfy all the body’s requirements. Proteins are made up of varying combinations of amino acids in different foods. When a food incorporates all the amino acids, its biological value is increased. This implies that the protein content and quality of that particular food is best suited to fulfill the needs of the human body.
The biological value of any food that does not contain the requisite number and combination of amino acids is therefore less, as is its ability to nourish the body.
For example, wheat protein does not contain the amino acid lysine, which is found in daals. So a combination of wheat and daal in the diet will overcome the deficiency and improve the quality of the protein intake, thus providing adequate nourishment to the body.
Likewise, an amino acid called tryptophan is present in cereals but is deficient in daals. So a combination of daals and cereals is ideally suited to fulfill both deficiencies and provide the requisite protein which is of as superior quality as milk protein.
Given below are some such beneficial combinations:
1. Cereal + cereal: A combination of different cereals, such as rice, wheat, corn, barley, millets etc is found to be more nutritious than any single cereal. For example, wheat and corn can be ground to flour to make rotis or a combination of rice and sooji can be carsely pounded to make idlis, upma etc.
2. Cereals + pulses: As daals too form the basis of the Indian diet in combination with cereals, they can be used to advantage in different combinations to boost nutritive value as well as taste. Various mixtures can be used to make rotis, kachoris, upma, cutlets, samosas etc.