Nutritious South African organic vegetable drink
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Nutritious South African organic vegetable drink
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- From South Africa
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Summary of the technology
An affordable, nutritious organic vegetable drink containing indigenous South African plants. It is an instant sorghum based dry pre-mix containing milled vegetable ingredients and is available in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry flavours.
Applications
Providing a nutritious drink for school children
Nutritious supplement for people wanting an organic supplement
Technology Field
Food Technology; Biosciences
Business Opportunity
Business Opportunity
Technology Description
An organically grown vegetable drink with no preservatives. It comes in 3 flavours: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. It could be sold as a meal supplement/breakfast to school children or it could be sold as a healthy smoothie drink via retail outlets.
Benefits & Advantages
Nutritional – organically grown, no preservatives School children need it, they currently eat starch for breakfast or nothing at all Can be integrated into school feeding schemes. Reasonable pricing for school children Quality product for consumers for distribution through retail outlets
Inventors
Gerda Botha, Tshidi Moroka, Nomusa Dlamini
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