Pulque added to combat malnutrition – fight anemia in people with low incomes
February 23, 2009 by
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Mexico, 21 Feb (Notimex) .- Researchers at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) are working on improving the pulque, adding minerals to increase their nutritional value and fight anemia in people with low incomes.
The project is to reduce its alcohol content and add iron, zinc, selenium and oats to make that an alternative beverage ancestral against malnutrition that affects 50 percent of the population, the researcher said Luis Tovar.
According to the Center of Scientific Research and Interdiciplinario on Environment and Development (CIIEMAD), pulque contains no enzymes in living organisms harmful to human metabolism, combined with minerals related cone return results give a high energy drink.
The project, entitled Development in Mexico: Population and Nutrition, Soil Restoration, focuses on the development of a food-reinforced natural minerals derived from plants, through a detailed statement of the IPN.
The project also seeks to recover the pulque industry, which he apparently has lost some years ago after launching a campaign against the drink, despite the benefits of nutrition.
Politécnico specialist insisted that the consumption of this drink may be equivalent to raising its yogurt’s expiration time to keep their nutritional qualities.
Gálvez Tovar acknowledged that the production of maguey, a plant that gets the mead to produce pulque, has been weakened, so the CIIEMAD has a technological package for the reforestation of the country’s central plateau to that cactus.
Highlighted the support of some state governments to the rescue of the pulque of Tlaxcala, whose representation in the Federal District will soon open a temporary pulquería.
