Traditional Foods and Nutritional Security

The book aims at creating awareness in nutrition security management and the relation with traditional practices in food. It has also dealt with the progress made on the ways of Nutrition security and different aspects of traditional foods. It is the various plant and animal systems which are the reservoirs of fibre, proteins, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, lipids, flavourants and essential phyto-chemicals. The intake of balanced diet can provide nutrition security. Consumers around the world have been preparing food items for balanced diet which has a direct link towards good human health.The book is very interesting in bridging the traditional foods and their use in nutritional security as it covers the coherence of food supply policies with respect to nutrition and food security.