Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Made From Locally Available Food Ingredients Is Well Accepted by Children Having Severe Acute Malnutrition in Bangladesh

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 116-126

  Choudhury, Nuzhat ^a   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^a,b   Hossain, Md Iqbal ^a   Islam, M Munirul ^a   Sarker, Shafiqul A ^a   Zeilani, Mamane ^c   Clemens, John David ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^c Nutriset SAS   (France)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; children; local ingredients; ready to use therapeutic foods (RUTFs); severe acute malnutrition

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOOD; FOOD AVAILABILITY; LEGUME; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MALNUTRITION; PROTEIN; RICE;

BANGLADESH;

CICER ARIETINUM; LENS CULINARIS;

FOOD INGREDIENT;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; BANGLADESH; CICER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIET; DIET THERAPY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FAST FOOD; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LENTIL; MALE; MALNUTRITION; ORYZA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN INTAKE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE;

BANGLADESH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICER; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIET; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FAST FOODS; FEMALE; FOOD INGREDIENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; LENS PLANT; MALE; ORYZA; SAMPLE SIZE; SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION;

EID: 85042290070     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: 15648265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0379572117743929     Document Type: Article

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