A bar made from jaggery, nuts, seeds and multiple grains and available for just Rs 10 could be the low-cost solution to the problem of anaemia among Indian women.
Produced by Rajvi Mehta, 20, the bar is inspired by the chikki, a tasty and popular confectionery. Just five bars a week can provide anaemic women with all the iron they need in their diets.
In 2010, Mehta, a Mumbai girl studying biochemistry at Brown University in the United States, found that she couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without feeling exhausted. She began to experience multiple. . .