Patents
The invention provides a nutritious soy-based composition useful as supplementary food, said composition comprising 41 to 53% by dry wt. Wheat, 5-20% by dry wt. Malted Jowar Flour, 10-20%) by dry wt. Defatted Soya Flour, 5-10% by dry wt. Roasted Bengal Gram Dhal and 25-35% Sweetener and minor quantity of a vitamin premix and a mineral premix. The invention also provides a process for preparing the said nutritious soy-based food supplementary. Novelty of the formulation and process is that composition ensures a minimum of 12-15% protein of high quality and minimum of 360 kcal of energy per 100 gm of product. The formulation contains malted millets like Jowar or pearl millet which thereby increases the bioavailability of the nutrients and reduction in the viscosity of the final product.