TY - JOUR
T1 - Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana
AU - Kabeer, Safreena
AU - Govindarajan, Nagamaniammai
AU - Radhakrishnan, Preetha
AU - Alharbi, Hanan F.
AU - Essa, Musthafa Mohamed
AU - Qoronfleh, M. Walid
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Kabeer, Govindarajan, Radhakrishnan, Alharbi, Essa and Qoronfleh.
PY - 2023/6/15
Y1 - 2023/6/15
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - banana
KW - finger millet
KW - fortification
KW - infants
KW - micronutrients
KW - weaning food
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U2 - 10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955
DO - 10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955
M3 - Article
C2 - 37396136
AN - SCOPUS:85164373858
SN - 2296-861X
VL - 10
SP - 1203955
JO - Frontiers in Nutrition
JF - Frontiers in Nutrition
M1 - 1203955
ER -