'Peanut based rutf formulations' diaporamas de présentation

The Promise of Non-peanut Recipes

Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) is getting increasingly accepted as a cost-effective panacea to deal with the global menace of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM), which impacts around 20 million children under age five worldwide. RUTF is now being considered as an alternative course of treatment for SAM-afflicted children who do not need major medical interventions. Local RUTF formulations (prepared from locally available produce) and their benefits have resultantly occupied mainstream discussions on their extent of positive impact on childrenu2019s overall growth and development. This has prompted all major stakeholders, including governments the world over, to come together and organise an accessible model of providing peanut and non-peanut based RUTF to rehabilitate severely malnourished children.

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