Abstract:
Granola bar is a ready- to- eat snack food that is highly nutritious due to the presence of different ingredients such as oat and nuts. Snack bars are likely useful foods since they contain a wide variety of ingredients that are abundant in bioactive chemicals. Ready-to-eat snacks called bars are adaptable, portable, and practical. They allow for meal skipping and can be consumed while travelling or working on other duties (1). They are rich in protein, dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. Oat granula bar enriched with seaweed powder which is high in dietary fiber and iodine content developed to address hypothyroidism. Dietary iodine is important to human health and deficiency can leads to hypothyroidism. Even a slight iodine deficit can have negative effects on thyroid health, and too much iodine can cause problems with thyroid function. Seaweed, which is becoming more popular as a diet in Western nations, is one source of iodine. Seaweed is rich in iodine. Iodine deficiency-related disorders continue to be a significant public health concern that require prevention and treatment. Iodine shortage can have detrimental effects on one's health, including cretinism, goiter, or other thyroid problems, as well as on the economy. The objective of this study was to check the effect of consumption of oat seaweed granula bar on females suffering with hypothyroidism. As
hypothyroidism is the disorder of iodine deficiency so the addition of seaweed powder in oat granula bar was aimed to check the impact of intake of seaweed granula bar on serum thyroid levels, weight reduction and managing ideal BMI range. To study the effects of ingestion of oat granola bar enriched with seaweed powder on female suffering with hypothyroidism. To investigate the effect of seaweed powder to normalize the thyroid level in females with hypothyroidismGranula bar was produced by combining the oats, syrup of dates and brown sugar, almond powder, raisins and seaweed (kelp) powder. Proximate analysis was performed for granula bar that showed the moisture content was 8.32 %, ash content was 1.62%, protein content was 7.01%, fat content was 11.49, crude fiber was,5.25%,carbohydrayt content was 52.27%. The seaweed powder enriched oat granula bar was given to eat to females with hypothyroidism for time period of 1 month and their weight , BMI, serum TSH,T3,T4 levels were analyzed to check the effect. By statistical analysis of pretreatment and post
treatment the paired significance values for weight,BMI,TSH,T3,T3 were as .087,.080,.004,.072 and .077 respectively. When analyzed the pre-treatment and post-treatment data of experimental group the weight reduced was 3.26%, BMI reduction was 3.25%, serum TSH level reduction was 3.66%, T3 was 21.77% and T4 was 1.74%. The iodine content of seaweed powder have significant effect on
serum thyroid level and dietary fiber of oat granula bar play role in weight reduction and consequently reduce BMI in females with hypothyroidism.
Page(s):
71-71
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Abstract Book on International Conference on Food and Applied Sciences (ICFAS-23) 3-5 August 23, Volume: 0, Issue: 0, Year: 2023
Keywords:
hypothyroidism
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seaweed
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BMI Iodine content
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Granula bar
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enriched