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A STUDY ON INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES, FOOD INTAKE AND CONSUMPTION OF FOUR SELECTED WEANING FOODS OF DIFFERENT COMPOSITION

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Title A STUDY ON INFANT FEEDING PRACTICES, FOOD INTAKE AND CONSUMPTION OF FOUR SELECTED WEANING FOODS OF DIFFERENT COMPOSITION
 
Creator Gonglore Arundhathi
 
Contributor Geervani, P
 
Subject STUDY, FEEDING, PRACTICES, FOOD, CONSUMPTION, COMPOSITION
 
Description A diet with a low density of energy and
other essential nutrients, may be difficult to consume
in adequate amounts to meet the nutritional
requirements of the individual. This is a problem
observed while feeding small children who have higher
energy and nutrient requirement per kilo body weight
when compared to adults.
Four weaning foods namely sweet biscuit,
potato and spinach puree, rice and dhal and rice and
curds were developed. Twenty pre-school children of 4
1/2 to below 12 months age were selected from local
creches and rural families for the study.
The information on socio-economic status,
infant feeding and weaning practices were collected
before supplementation. Each weaning food selected for
the present study was supplemented for 3 days. An
interval of 4 days was maintained between each study.
The quantity of each of these four weaning foods
consumed at one meal time was recorded. Diet survey
of children was conducted during the supplementation
period.
The study showed that the mean intake of sweet
biscuit was the .lowest where as the intake of rice and
dhal was the highest followed by rice and curds and
pot~to and spinach puree on fresh weight basis. The
diet survey conducted during the supplementation period
revealed that breast milk, rice, artificial milk and
biscuits were frequently consumed by children and the
least consumed foods were egg and butter milk.
The present study showed that a child can
consume around 45g-62g of vegetable and rice based
foods and 18 g of sweet biscuit. Sweet biscuit was
found to have higher amount of sugar, fat and calories.
So it can be presumed that foods of high fat, sugar and
calorie density will be consumed in much less
quantities. Hence, it is not the bulk of food alone
that determines the food intake of children but it
also depends on the composition especially calorie
density of the food. Therefore, in case of younger
infants and children who are difficult to feed, it is
advisable to give dry foods of high caloric value than
wet foods of low caloric value, as satiety is reached
much earlier with high caloric foods. The weight
recorded after supplementation period of 24 days showed
that of the total sample, 18 children showed marginal
gain in weight and in 2 children no change in weight
was observed.
However, some some studies have to be done with
high fat and low sugar and higg sugar and low
fat foods to know whether a critical determinant of
studies have to be done foods and high sugar and
fat level or sugar level
satiety value.
 
Date 2016-08-19T10:04:32Z
2016-08-19T10:04:32Z
1990
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/72941
 
Language en
 
Relation D3419;
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, RAJENDRANAGAR, HYDERABAD.