Development and Acceptability of Locally Made Fish-Based, Ready-to-Use Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Malnutrition in Cambodia

Abstract

The overall acceptability was ranked lowest for a pure paste product. However, filling the paste into a wafer made the product more acceptable.

Effectiveness of a Locally Produced, Fish-Based Food Product on Weight Gain among Cambodian Children in the Treatment of Acute Malnutrition: A Randomized Controlled Trial

“…The lower weight gain in this trial could be caused by multiple factors, including the difference in adherence to an ideal management of patients with SAM, low daily feeding frequency, sharing, low acceptability and therefore a low overall consumption of RUTF. Although consumption was not directly assessed, acceptability, compliance, and sharing during the trial was assessed, which was reported in detail by Sigh et al (2018) [ 17 ]. The proportion of patients expressing that they liked the product increased after the eight-week intervention for NumTrey and remained ~90% for BP-100 TM during the trial.…”

“…The nutritional composition of the two RUTFs and comparison with the guidelines for the nutritional composition of RUTFs are presented in Table 1 . The development and description of NumTrey have been reported elsewhere [ 17 , 26 ]. NumTrey has been tested for acceptability in a taste trial using a crossover design [ 17 ].…”

“…The development and description of NumTrey have been reported elsewhere [ 17 , 26 ]. NumTrey has been tested for acceptability in a taste trial using a crossover design [ 17 ]. As shown in Table 1 , the NumTrey paste fulfills the requirements for most macro- and micronutrients.…”

“…The overall aim of the project was to develop a RUTF accepted by the target group which could support successful treatment of SAM in Cambodia. Our initial acceptability taste trial showed that a pure fish-based paste product was not well accepted, but when filled into a crispy wafer, the fish-based paste became more acceptable among children and their caregivers [ 17 ]. Acceptability, compliance, and sharing from the effectiveness trial reported here were also described [ 17 ].…”

Effectiveness of a locally produced ready‐to‐use supplementary food in preventing growth faltering for children under 2 years in Cambodia: a cluster randomised controlled trial

“…Therefore, in mid‐2013, UNICEF engaged the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and the Cambodian Department of Fisheries Post‐harvest Technologies and Quality (DFPTQ), to develop a locally produced ready‐to‐use supplementary food (RUSF). The aim was to develop an RUSF that would be more acceptable, effective and affordable than previously tested or used products (Sigh et al, ).…”