Fortified Cookies For Hypocalcemic Adolescents

Nutritionists are now a days more concerned about food safety, malnutrition diet health linkages and food safety. Micro-nutrients are
required for several metabolic ways and shortages lead to severe health differences. Calcium (Ca), as a nutrient, is most normally related to metabolism and formation
of bone, more than 99 % bodily Ca exists in
teeth and bones while around 1 % in circulatory systems. Bone serves as Ca storage site from where Ca is taken for metabolism along with
fulfilling the requirement in the process of bone remodeling.

Calcium (Ca) is essential for bones, muscles, hormones and other metabolic pathways. chicken egg shell (ESP) and chicken bone extract powders (CBEP) were used for Ca fortification of cookies.