Glenmark Foundation empowers the Nutritious India Dream through “Meri Poushtik Rasoi – Season 2”, a cooking contest to fight malnutrition
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The
pan India “Meri Poshtik Rasoi’ cooking contest is aimed at discovering
nutrition rich traditional and local recipes from the Indian kitchen
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Over
700 participants from 22 states and 100 cities signed up for the contest and shared
recipes for a healthier India
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According
to a WHO report, around 37% of children in India under the age of 5 are
underweight, and around 8% are severely malnourished.
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The
recipes will be compiled into a cookbook that will help to create awareness on
the need and methods to cook nutritious and locally relevant recipes
Mumbai; February 23, 2019: Glenmark Foundation, the CSR arm of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
in association with Idobro Impact Solutions, Sheila Raheja Institute of Hotel Management
and A Perfect Bite Consulting announces the grand finale of the second edition
of ‘Meri Poushtik Rasoi’. The pan India ‘Meri Poshtik Rasoi’ Contest is aimed
at discovering nutrition rich indigenous recipes from the Indian kitchen.
The second edition of the contest saw a huge response with more
than 700 participants from over 22 states signing-up for the contest and sharing
recipes for a healthier India. The contestants participated in 3 categories - NGOs
working in the space of maternal and child health, Students/ Professionals
related to nutrition or hospitality and anybody who has a personal
interest in nutrition. Ms.Brinelle D’souza, Ms.Rushina Munshaw-Ghildiyal, Chef
Yogesh Utekar and celebrity Chef Varun Inamdar are the eminent jury members.
The finalists have come from diverse locations such as Bareilly, Bengaluru,
Hyderabad, Jamnagar, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Pakur.
Talking about the Contest, Ms Cheryl Pinto, Director – Corporate
Affairs, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said, “Malnutrition is a major concern in
India. Through Glenmark Foundation we have focused on addressing the issue of
malnutrition in the country and it is our endeavour to continuously find innovative
ways to combat malnutrition. ‘Meri Poushtik Rasoi’, is one such initiative in
that direction. Through this initiative we aim to influence the food and
nutrition culture in India. It is encouraging to see how rapidly the response
and participation from across the country has increased from Season 1 which was
conducted last year. We truly believe that this mix of participants from across
India, will enable us to collect and share a wealth of traditional food
knowledge that can serve the collective good.”
The ‘Meri Poushtik Rasoi’ cooking
contest will help to draw out and document the existing knowledge on
nutritious, traditional local food and take it to a wider audience for advocacy
around a more nutritious lifestyle. Over the years, we envision to compile all
the selected recipes from the contest into a ‘Cook book’ which will act as a
catalyst to build capacity of people working in the field of malnutrition.
Malnutrition in India
According to the Report of World
Health Organisation, about 38 per cent of the children under five are affected
by stunting and about 21 per cent of children under 5 have been defined as
‘wasted’ or ‘severely wasted’ – which means that they do not weigh enough for
their height. Moreover, 51 per cent of the women of reproductive age suffer
from anaemia. Only about 10 per cent children under the age 6-23 months were
reported to receive an adequate diet. This inequality in access is accentuated
by the stark state level disparity in nutritional status.
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