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Fish-based RUTF for treatment of undernutrition in Cambodia
3 MSc students on associated data and topics.
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Malnutrition remains as a major public health in Cambodia. Locally produced food supplements for prevention and therapeutic treatment is limited by the lack of suitable sustainable high-quality protein source, alternative to imported milk powder.
Cambodia has rich aquatic food resources from the Mekong river system. These resources are seasonal and have traditionally not been considered integrated in nutrition programs for alleviating malnutrition.
In a consortium of collaborators and stakeholders we contribute to nutrient-sensitive approaches to sustainable uses of the fish resources by conducting research supporting the use of locally available whole small fish processed to high-quality powder and used as ingredient in a new fish-based ready-to-use-therapeutic food (RUTF) products.
Together with UNICEF Cambodia, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and the food company Danish Care Foods/Vissot, we conducted a RCT study testing the fish-based RUTF Nutrix for treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM).
Additional research in utilizing the product for prevention of growth faltering among children at risk of malnutrition has been conducted.