The Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute has reached high protein biscuits to the Covid-19 patients now undergoing treatment in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
The institute supplied 500 kg of high protein biscuits and 500 kg of high protein rusks to the dietetics department of the medical institute to supply to the patients.
The biscuits were supplied on request from the officials of the institute.
They contain 14% of protein while usual biscuits contain around 8-9% protein.
“The enriched biscuits will provide protein needed for recuperating patients,” stated Dr K S M S Raghavarao, director, CSIR-CFTRI.
“It is also pertinent to mention here, that the recipe formulation of the protein-enriched products is being done by the dedicated scientists of CSIR-CFTRI Mysuru and manufactured as per FSSAI regulations,” said Dr Parmeet Kaur, chief dietician, AIIMS, New Delhi, about the biscuits.
Covid-19 patients undergoing treatment in the hospital along with others will be receiving the biscuits as part of their routine diet.
The biscuits were manufactured in Noida, UP, by Seven Seas Pvt. Ltd based on the formulation from CSIR-CFTRI and logistic support to supply to the needy was provided by the Indian Society of Agricultural Professionals, New Delhi.
Besides, CFTRI joined hands with the Income Tax department in Bengaluru to provide food to those migrant workers who were on the streets due to nationwide lockdown. It provided five tonne of water, five tonne of fruit bar and half a tonne of spirulina chikki for the relief food.
Yet another effort was that CSIR-CFTRI continued extending its helping hand for fighting the Covid-19 threat by supplying hand sanitiser for use by field workers in Mysuru.
Hand sanitisers are used when water is not available to wash hands to keep the virus at bay and are alcohol based liquids or gels. It prepared sanitisers based on the formulation prescribed by the World Health Organization.
About 200 litre of sanitisers were prepared and packaged in packages handy for carrying around in the field. A total of 2,000 bottles of hand sanitisers were then handed over to the district administration for distribution among the field staff like health workers, police and other officials. Dr V Baskaran, chief scientist, and colleagues handed over the sanitisers to Abhiram Shankar, DC, Mysuru.
Earlier CSIR-CFTRI had provided two PCR machines and one RNA extraction unit along with necessary chemicals to the Covid-19 Testing Unit of KR Hospital for hastening the infection detection process.