The main goal of e’Pap is to help
create a nutrient replete human being, by addressing what has now become known
as ‘hidden hunger’ (vitamin and mineral deficiencies). One in three people in the world suffers from hidden hunger today.
Victims of low health, poverty and
disease can begin to cope better with their own poverty and health challenges
once they are ‘nutrient replete’, i.e. physically and mentally able human
beings. In the case of highly malnourished poor people, the reality is that
‘part solutions’ are ineffective: people will remain dysfunctional if their
nutritional deficits are increasing daily.
Our challenge was to innovate a
nutrient-dense food matrix with the following qualities:
• Must contain the essential
nutrients missing from the target groups’ diet
• Must be affordable, easy to use,
palatable and culturally acceptable to target groups
• Must be presented as a single-step
portion of real food (i.e. not a tablet)
• Must contain the most efficacious,
food-state nutritional supplements available
• Must be carefully balanced so that
nutrients do not ‘block’ or conflict with each other
Fyi here is a table with some of the micronutrients in e'Pap and some of the benefits of those vitamins and minerals...
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