AUTHOR=Kabeer Safreena , Govindarajan Nagamaniammai , Radhakrishnan Preetha , Alharbi Hanan F. , Essa Musthafa Mohamed , Qoronfleh M. Walid TITLE=Formulation of fortified instant weaning food from Musa paradisiaca (banana) and Eleusine coracana JOURNAL=Frontiers in Nutrition VOLUME=10 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955 DOI=10.3389/fnut.2023.1203955 ISSN=2296-861X ABSTRACT=
Weaning food is a soft, easily digestible type of food other than breast milk for infants aged 6 to 24 months. The present study was conducted to develop cereal-fruit-based complementary foods for infants and evaluate the nutritional quality of such types of foods. Few researchers have focused on formulating weaning foods from locally available, nutritious, and rich ingredients without nutrient loss to reduce malnutrition and infant morbidity rates. In this study, the formulated infant food was prepared from