Functional  Software on Traditional Therapeutic Foods of Tamilnadu– An Efficacy Study

K. Karthika Devi; Dr. V. Premala Priyadharshini

Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Functional Software on Traditional Therapeutic Foods of Tamilnadu– An Efficacy Study

K. Karthika Devi, Dr. V. Premala Priyadharshini

Abstract :

Reintroducing the forgotten arts of culinary skills with Therapeutic value addition in unison with technology will help the food lovers to make a healthy choice during disease and convalescent period. With the objectives to develop and evaluate a database on traditional therapeutic recipes of Tamilnadu, original Traditional therapeutic recipes (150) were surveyed and classified for nine therapeutic conditions namely Cold (15), Cough (16), Constipation (33), Diabetes (12), Feile condition (4), Indigestion (4), Ulcer (15), Multi Therapeutic condition (47) and during Convalescent period (4) and were standardized. The standardized recipes were further tested for its acceptability by a panel of 20 members using a �Score card�. A user friendly database �Med Food� was developed by the investigator with four inbuilt module namely Thera food, Recipe Park, Nutri Sort and Glossopedia using the programme Visual Basic 2010 and the database was evaluated. The data base was on the whole rated to be effective and user friendly