Year: 2022 | Month: September | Volume 15 | Issue 3
Awareness, Cultivation and Consumption Practices of Microgreens among Urban Women of Varanasi: An Interventional Study
Shahzadi Khatoon
Mukta Singh
DOI:10.30954/0974-1712.03.2022.17
Abstract:
Globally significant parts of the population consume substantially less nutritious foods than recommended levels. People have been encouraged to find alternative food sources due to growing public health concerns. Microgreens are young, immature plants that are a new type of vegetable that have just been developed, adapting their production at the micro-scale. In diets that support good health, microgreens are becoming more and more important. They are regarded as excellent providers of nutrients and bioactive substances, and they have promise in preventing chronic illnesses and undernutrition. This study is basically focused on assessment of awareness, cultivation, and consumption practices regarding microgreens among urban women of Varanasi. The cross-sectional study was carried out in which samples were selected randomly, and the total sample size was 110 subjects. Educational intervention program was also conducted after the survey. Results demonstrated that the majority of respondents (97.22%) hadn’t any knowledge about microgreens before the intervention, but they were willing to know about growing methods of microgreens. After intervention (73.14%), subjects had knowledge about microgreens. In which (65.74%) subjects started to grow and consumption of microgreens after 3rd month of follow-up. Therefore, it is essential to develop more and more community awareness-building initiatives and campaigns in the locals so that it can as soon as possible, become a regular part of people’s diets.
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Highlights
- A community based survey was carried out to know the awareness of microgreens among urban women of Varanasi.
- Subjects were introduced to the nutritional benefits of food named microgreens
- Furthermore, a feedback was taken after 3 months from the aforesaid section of society about the implementation microgreens in their diet.
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