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Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana

Weaning food is a soft, easily digestible type of food other than breast milk for infants aged 6 to 24 months. The present study was conducted to develop cereal-fruit-based complementary foods for infants and evaluate the nutritional quality of such types of foods. Few researchers have focused on fo...

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Autores principales: Kabeer, Safreena, Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai, Radhakrishnan, Preetha, Alharbi, Hanan F., Essa, Musthafa Mohamed, Qoronfleh, M. Walid
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37396136
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955
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author Kabeer, Safreena
Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai
Radhakrishnan, Preetha
Alharbi, Hanan F.
Essa, Musthafa Mohamed
Qoronfleh, M. Walid
author_facet Kabeer, Safreena
Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai
Radhakrishnan, Preetha
Alharbi, Hanan F.
Essa, Musthafa Mohamed
Qoronfleh, M. Walid
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description Weaning food is a soft, easily digestible type of food other than breast milk for infants aged 6 to 24 months. The present study was conducted to develop cereal-fruit-based complementary foods for infants and evaluate the nutritional quality of such types of foods. Few researchers have focused on formulating weaning foods from locally available, nutritious, and rich ingredients without nutrient loss to reduce malnutrition and infant morbidity rates. In this study, the formulated infant food was prepared from Musa paradisiaca (Nendran banana) and Eleusine coracana (ragi). Formulated weaning food was analyzed using various standard methods, demonstrating that it could provide adequate nutrients to growing infants for their proper growth and development. The shelf life of the weaning food was also studied for a period of 3 months at ambient conditions in two different packaging materials: aluminum and plastic (low-density polyethylene or LDPE), with the aluminum foil pouch exhibiting the best shelf life. This ready-to-serve food, which is formulated and fortified with natural ingredients containing essential macronutrients and micronutrients, could be regarded as highly effective supplementary food for infants. Furthermore, this development has the potential to introduce an affordable weaning product specifically targeted at low socioeconomic groups.
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spelling pubmed-103112122023-07-01 Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana Kabeer, Safreena Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai Radhakrishnan, Preetha Alharbi, Hanan F. Essa, Musthafa Mohamed Qoronfleh, M. Walid Front Nutr Nutrition Weaning food is a soft, easily digestible type of food other than breast milk for infants aged 6 to 24 months. The present study was conducted to develop cereal-fruit-based complementary foods for infants and evaluate the nutritional quality of such types of foods. Few researchers have focused on formulating weaning foods from locally available, nutritious, and rich ingredients without nutrient loss to reduce malnutrition and infant morbidity rates. In this study, the formulated infant food was prepared from Musa paradisiaca (Nendran banana) and Eleusine coracana (ragi). Formulated weaning food was analyzed using various standard methods, demonstrating that it could provide adequate nutrients to growing infants for their proper growth and development. The shelf life of the weaning food was also studied for a period of 3 months at ambient conditions in two different packaging materials: aluminum and plastic (low-density polyethylene or LDPE), with the aluminum foil pouch exhibiting the best shelf life. This ready-to-serve food, which is formulated and fortified with natural ingredients containing essential macronutrients and micronutrients, could be regarded as highly effective supplementary food for infants. Furthermore, this development has the potential to introduce an affordable weaning product specifically targeted at low socioeconomic groups. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10311212/ /pubmed/37396136 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955 Text en Copyright © 2023 Kabeer, Govindarajan, Radhakrishnan, Alharbi, Essa and Qoronfleh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Kabeer, Safreena
Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai
Radhakrishnan, Preetha
Alharbi, Hanan F.
Essa, Musthafa Mohamed
Qoronfleh, M. Walid
Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title_full Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title_fullStr Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title_full_unstemmed Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title_short Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
title_sort formulation of fortified instant weaning food from musa paradisiaca (banana) and eleusine coracana
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37396136
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955
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