FORMULA MAKANAN GLIKEMIK TINGGI UNTUK ANAK GIZI KURANG

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Uken S. Soetrisno
Rossi R. Apriyantono
Maryanto Maryanto
Agus Drajat

Abstract

High Glycaemic Food Formula For Under Nourished Children.

Background: The reported prevalence of undernounshed children is highly increase since economic crisis. Six months food intervention based on skim milk only improved 65% of the undernourished children. Since gastrointestinal tract of such childrents incapable of digesting high molecular weight of carbohydrate and protein, there is a need to develop an easily digested food formula which has high glycaemic index.

Objective: to produce high glycaemic index formula using dextrinized carbohydrate and fermented skim milk that is easily digested for undernourished children.

Method: Two groups of subjects, each consists of 34 and 33 undernourished children were given either high glycaemic index formula (test group) or skim milk formula (control group) for 4 months. The food formula compliance, anthropometric measurement, blood and fecal component were analyzed.

Results: There were increase in body weight of test group even though not changing their nutritional status based on Z-score. The blood and fecal component data indicated that the high glycaemic formula can be digested well by the undernourished children.

Keywords: high glycaemic formula, undernourished

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Soetrisno, U. S., Apriyantono, R. R., Maryanto, M., & Drajat, A. (2012). FORMULA MAKANAN GLIKEMIK TINGGI UNTUK ANAK GIZI KURANG. Penelitian Gizi Dan Makanan (The Journal of Nutrition and Food Research). https://doi.org/10.22435/pgm.v0i0.1508.
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