Formulation, Nutritional Evaluation and Storage Study of Supplementary Food (Panjiri)

Human childhood may be divided in to three stages Infancy, Weaning and Pre-school stage. Although breast feeding is beneficial for the optimum growth of the children, prolonged breast feeding without appropriate complementary feeding is crucial contributory factor for malnutrition among young children. Therefore, supplementation has to be implemented after four to six months to overcome malnutrition and related complications. These supplementary foods are worked as balanced diet for pre-school children. When the child is 1 to 1.5 years old, breast milk may not be available to it or milk is no longer sufficient to meet its nutritional requirements. It needs some more calories and other nutrients as supplement to milk till he/she is ready to eat adult’s food. This is the post weaning stage of a child. In this stage proper nutritional care of the child is essential to ensure normal growth. It helps to avoid malnutrition in pre-school children [1].