Dietary Diversity with Dried Moringa Leave Powder and Amla Juice to Increase Haemoglobin level of Adolescent girls of Farm Families

The dried and powdered leave of Moringa oleifera can prevent and restore iron reserve because of its high content of protein and micronutrients including iron. This study aimed to assess the effects of Moringa oleifera supplementation on haemoglobin level of adolescent girls of farm families to prevent the prevalence of anaemia among future mothers. This was an On-farm trial in which fifty adolescent girls aged 14-16 years participated. They were again divided into five groups each having ten subjects who were treated with different tested technological options to increase haemoglobin level except control group who was on regular daily diet. Group 2, 3, 4 & 5 were given DFS, amla juice, dried powdered moringa leave and moringa leave powder and amla juice both respectively. Among pre-intervention 83 per cent of them are having mild anaemia, 7 per cent of them having moderate anaemia and 10 per cent of them are having normal haemoglobin level and none of them have severe anaemia. In post-test, 35 per cent of them are having normal haemoglobin, 40 per cent of them having mild anaemia and 5 per cent of them are having moderate anaemia and none of them were in severe anaemia among all the selected subjects. In general, correlation study between various anthropometric indices revealed both positive and negative association for a few of the indices evaluated. Cluster analysis of anthropometric variables yielded three distinct clusters: Cluster I (TSF, MUAC, and haemoglobin), Cluster II (Height and weight), and Cluster III (BMI and age). Multivariate principal component analysis applied to anthropometric indicators extracted three principal components that explained 52.48 per cent of the cumulative variability of data for PC1, 26.05 per cent for PC2 and 16.79 per cent for PC3, respectively.