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Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India

The study assessed the potential for use of millets in mid-day school meal programs for better nutritional outcomes of children in a peri-urban region of Karnataka, India, where children conventionally consumed a fortified rice-based mid-day meal. For a three-month period, millet-based mid-day meals...

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Autores principales: Anitha, Seetha, Kane-Potaka, Joanna, Tsusaka, Takuji W., Tripathi, Deepti, Upadhyay, Shweta, Kavishwar, Ajay, Jalagam, Ashok, Sharma, Nidhi, Nedumaran, Swamikannu
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31484377
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11092077
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author Anitha, Seetha
Kane-Potaka, Joanna
Tsusaka, Takuji W.
Tripathi, Deepti
Upadhyay, Shweta
Kavishwar, Ajay
Jalagam, Ashok
Sharma, Nidhi
Nedumaran, Swamikannu
author_facet Anitha, Seetha
Kane-Potaka, Joanna
Tsusaka, Takuji W.
Tripathi, Deepti
Upadhyay, Shweta
Kavishwar, Ajay
Jalagam, Ashok
Sharma, Nidhi
Nedumaran, Swamikannu
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description The study assessed the potential for use of millets in mid-day school meal programs for better nutritional outcomes of children in a peri-urban region of Karnataka, India, where children conventionally consumed a fortified rice-based mid-day meal. For a three-month period, millet-based mid-day meals were fed to 1500 adolescent children at two schools, of which 136 were studied as the intervention group and were compared with 107 other children in two other schools that did not receive the intervention. The intervention design was equivalent to the parallel group, two-arm, superiority trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The end line allocation ratio was 1.27:1 due to attrition. It was found that there was statistically significant improvement in stunting (p = 0.000) and the body mass index (p = 0.003) in the intervention group and not in the control group (p = 0.351 and p = 0.511, respectively). The sensory evaluation revealed that all the millet-based menu items had high acceptability, with the highest scores for the following three items: finger millet idli, a steam cooked fermented savory cake; little and pearl millet bisi belle bath, a millet-lentil hot meal; and upma, a pearl and little millet-vegetable meal. These results suggest significant potential for millets to replace or supplement rice in school feeding programs for improved nutritional outcomes of children.
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spelling pubmed-67709312019-10-30 Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India Anitha, Seetha Kane-Potaka, Joanna Tsusaka, Takuji W. Tripathi, Deepti Upadhyay, Shweta Kavishwar, Ajay Jalagam, Ashok Sharma, Nidhi Nedumaran, Swamikannu Nutrients Article The study assessed the potential for use of millets in mid-day school meal programs for better nutritional outcomes of children in a peri-urban region of Karnataka, India, where children conventionally consumed a fortified rice-based mid-day meal. For a three-month period, millet-based mid-day meals were fed to 1500 adolescent children at two schools, of which 136 were studied as the intervention group and were compared with 107 other children in two other schools that did not receive the intervention. The intervention design was equivalent to the parallel group, two-arm, superiority trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The end line allocation ratio was 1.27:1 due to attrition. It was found that there was statistically significant improvement in stunting (p = 0.000) and the body mass index (p = 0.003) in the intervention group and not in the control group (p = 0.351 and p = 0.511, respectively). The sensory evaluation revealed that all the millet-based menu items had high acceptability, with the highest scores for the following three items: finger millet idli, a steam cooked fermented savory cake; little and pearl millet bisi belle bath, a millet-lentil hot meal; and upma, a pearl and little millet-vegetable meal. These results suggest significant potential for millets to replace or supplement rice in school feeding programs for improved nutritional outcomes of children. MDPI 2019-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6770931/ /pubmed/31484377 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11092077 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Anitha, Seetha
Kane-Potaka, Joanna
Tsusaka, Takuji W.
Tripathi, Deepti
Upadhyay, Shweta
Kavishwar, Ajay
Jalagam, Ashok
Sharma, Nidhi
Nedumaran, Swamikannu
Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title_full Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title_fullStr Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title_full_unstemmed Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title_short Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
title_sort acceptance and impact of millet-based mid-day meal on the nutritional status of adolescent school going children in a peri urban region of karnataka state in india
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770931/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31484377
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11092077
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