2008, Number 1
Desarrollo y evaluación de campo de un producto alimenticio formulado con insumos de la región del soconusco, Chiapas (México)
Gyves CMG, Ramos PDG, Adriano AML, Figueroa MS
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ABSTRACT
The infantile malnutrition is one of the main problems in the rural areas of the country and in the outlying populations of the cities. Although the federal, state and municipal governments have promoted diverse programs to combat this problem, for many reasons, the prospective success has not been had. The distrust regarding the type of constituent of the alimentary formulations, of their nutritious properties, the organoleptic properties unknown, as well as the null pursuit of its consumption is, among other, the obstacles that have not been possible to conquer. For the above-mentioned the objective of the present work was to develop and to evaluate in field a nutritious product formulated with matters of the region (banana, soja and cocoa) as alternative to improve the infantile population's state nutrition. For it the flours of the constituents of the food were obtained firstly and, later on, with them they got ready diverse mixtures until finding one that fulfilled to be a food with proteic characteristic and of pleasant flavor. The selected mixture was characterized by means of bromatologycal tests and its innocuoulity was guaranteed by means of microbiological analysis. To facilitate the control of the field test, the population of a rural school of the town was selected and the food was administered, 100g/día and for eight months, under diverse presentations (cookies, corn-flour gruel and ice cream). The infants were stratified according to its age and they were divided, aleatorily, in a test group and a control. To know the impact of the food the study population it was subjected to a nutrition evaluation before and after the period of study. The results were analyzed by means of the statistical “t” and the non parametric test of Gomez. The population's high proportion showed clinical signs of malnutrition, mainly in the skin and the hair, to the beginning of the study. It was also found that ingest of foods was inadequate (in quality and in quantity), which was reflected in that the population's 66.1% had some degree of malnutrition. After the period of test of the food, it was observed a decrease so much in the clinical signs of malnutrition (between 18 and 78 percentage points), like in the proportion of individuals with malnutrition (of 66.1% to 25.8%). These changes were not observed in the group control. The more relevant conclusions of this work were: a) A proteic food, with acceptable organoleptic characteristics for the population, was formulated with matters of region; b) The controlled and supervised consumption of the food diminished the proportion of children with malnutrition.REFERENCES