Peanut Mixture 'An Almost Perfect Food'
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A SIMPLE mixture of peanut paste and boiled sweet potato could benefit millions of hungry children in the world, Papua-New Guinea’s Public Health Director, Doctor R. Scragg, said in Port Moresby in April.
He said a pilot study on the use of roasted peanuts as food was started three years ago in New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands.
As a result, most of the mothers in the area now feed
finely ground roasted peanuts to their babies.
Peanut paste mixed in equal portions with boiled sweet potato and fed to a child as a main food course provided the almost perfect food for a growing youngster.
Dr. Scragg added that the pea nut mixture might contribute to the “very hopes of survival” of children beyond the age of two.