NOURISH TO FLOURISH ®
A nutrition solution designed to fulfill nutrition needs and address implementation challenges while being simple, scalable, and impactful.
Challenges:
Lack of Skill
Large Distances
Lack of Facilities
They Don't Need Your Pity. They Need Your Support.
Help Us Leverage The Power of Superfoods
Poverty or lack of facilities mustn't deny children of nourishing meals.
CRITICAL NEEDS
Along with macronutrients i.e. proteins, carbohydrates and fats, it is critical that beneficiaries, especially young children and their mothers also get small quantities of essential micronutrients such as calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, magnesium along with a range of key vitamins for adequate growth and development.
These micronutrients play a crucial role in a child’s development during the first thousand days after birth. For example, 80% of a child’s brain develops by the age of 2 years, and these micronutrients are key to ensuring that the child develops adequate cognitive abilities.
As per the Recommended Dietary Allowances by the Indian Council of Medical Research, infants below 12 months of age need at-least 80 Kcals energy per day while children from age 1 to 6 need up-to 1350 Kcals of energy per day.
MENU DESIGN : NATIVE & NUTRITIOUS
Menu design is driven by 3 key factors to ensure acceptance and thus have a wide outreach.
1. Nutritious
Energy dense meals that must fulfil least half of daily macro and micro-nutrient requirement.
2. Relevant
Community native, fun, and tasty for children
3. Common Ingredients
Locally used and easily available.
MENU DESIGN : NATIVE & NUTRITIOUS
Popular & traditional ingredients that met the above criteria:
1. Rice & Wheat
Locally grown & amply available.
2. Sattus
Easily created by roasting (grains/ grams)
3. Jaggery
Rich in Iron
