Year: 2024 | Month: May | Volume: 11 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 420-422
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240549
Providing Complementary Food Made from Local Food for Toddlers in Indonesia: A Literature Review
Mia Laurentika MY1, Rahmani Welan2
1Tanjung Ampalu Health Center, Sijunjung, Indonesia
2Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Mia Laurentika MY
ABSTRACT
Stunting is still a relatively high nutritional problem for toddlers in Indonesia. Even though the stunting rate is decreasing yearly, the downward trend is not fast enough to reach the target of 14% in 2024. The national team for accelerating poverty reduction in 2017 reported that access to nutritious food is still lacking because the price of healthy food is relatively high, which is one of the factors influencing stunting. Therefore, the government's strategy to accelerate stunting includes providing complementary food made from local food for toddlers and pregnant women to reduce stunting in Indonesia. This literature review aims to see how implementing the complementary food program made from local ingredients handles the stunting problem. A literature review is the result of a literature study through collecting and reviewing previous research. The data used are articles based on the Google Scholar database using the keywords stunting and local food, with a publication year limit of 5 years (2017 to 2023). Indonesia is the third largest country in the world regarding biodiversity (Food Security Agency). Various studies show that processed local Indonesian food has good nutritional content to fulfill children's dietary needs. Many regions have started to use local food as the leading choice of complementary food for toddlers and pregnant women. It is hoped that local food processing can be a nutritious food solution for improving children's nutrition in a sustainable manner in Indonesia.
Keywords: complementary food; toddler; local food; Indonesia
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