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Mozambican Researchers Develop Food Supplement to Strengthen Immunity

Mozambican Researchers Develop Food Supplement to Strengthen Immunity

The production and recent launch in the country of a food supplement called EKUME, which means “health”, is seen by researchers as a contribution of science, made by Mozambicans for Mozambicans and that can take the name of the country beyond borders.

It is a hyper-caloric and hyper-protein supplement, whose dietary recommendation would be for children and the elderly due to its composition, with ingredients such as moringa, mapira, peanuts, malambe, green banana flour, which provides an improvement of the immune system.

Still in the composition, the supplement includes some vitamins C and K, minerals such as iron, zinc, and proteins.

For its ingestion, the supplement comes in the form of precooked flour, for instant use, and in another formulation for common use, without precooking, the consumer is free to use it the way he or she pleases.

The participants are researchers from the Tropical Nutrition area of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the Pedagogical University-Maputo (UP), in coordination with other researchers, representing the Ministry of Health (MISAU), through the Directorate of Traditional and Alternative Medicine.

The production of the supplement was under MISAU’s guidance for the need to produce food and nutritional solutions for the Mozambican communities, in the context of Covid-19.

Cornélio Mucaca, professor and researcher at UP- Maputo, explained that as for the composition, the supplement is already balanced in such a way that there is no need for additives, in terms of nutrients. The only addition would be water and cooking for one and other formulas of the supplement that is presented in the form of flour. “Since it is a natural product with no additives the consumer can, if they want, add something to please their palate,” he explained.

About mechanisms to access the product, Mucaca said that the contribution of his research team ended with the availability of the formula, and it is up to the managers of UP and MISAU to find the best way to channel it to the communities.

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The research team needed a year to produce the supplement. “From planning to finalization we took roughly a year. We started at the end of the first semester of 2020 and we finalized it now,” he concluded.

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