DEVELOPMENT AND PACKAGING OF A LEUCINE-RICH COMPOSITE FLOUR FOR TREATMENT OF MODERATE WASTING IN CHILDREN AGED 6 - 24 MONTHS

Wasting, categorized as either severe or moderate, is a form of child malnutrition that manifests with a low weight-for-height Z-score. Previous treatment methods for moderate wasting, which affects approximately 300,000 children in Kenya, were ineffective as they lacked a mechanism to replace the a...

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Veröffentlicht in:	African journal of food, agriculture, nutrition, and development : AJFAND agriculture, nutrition, and development : AJFAND, 2021-02, Vol.21 (1), p.17140-17157
Hauptverfasser:	Wamiti, J, Kogi-Makau, W, Ngala, S, Onyango, FE
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	complementary feeding diet optimization Diet therapy Enriched foods Flour Health aspects Leucine Leucine supplementation moderate wasting Packaging Product development therapeutic food Wasting syndrome
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