The Effect of Supplementing a Basal Rice Diet With Wild Green Leafy Vegetables on the Retention of Nitrogen, Calcium and Phosphorus in Adolescent Girls

Abstract

Diets based predominantly on rice and containing only small amounts of milk and other protective foods are being consumed by a vast majority of the population in different parts of India.' Aykroyd and Krishnan^ showed in experiments with albino rats that poor Indian rice diets are deficient in calcium, vitamin A, certain vitamins of the B complex group and proteins.