eprintid: 11277
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datestamp: 2019-09-03 10:58:18
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creators_name: Anitha, S
creators_name: Kane-Potaka, J
creators_name: Tsusaka, T W
creators_name: Tripathi, D
creators_name: Upadhyay, S
creators_name: Kavishwar, A
creators_name: Jalagam, A
creators_name: Sharma, N
creators_name: Nedumaran, S
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
creators_gender: Female
icrisatcreators_name: Anitha, S
icrisatcreators_name: Kane-Potaka, J
icrisatcreators_name: Tsusaka, T W
icrisatcreators_name: Jalagam, A
icrisatcreators_name: Nedumaran, S
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Lilongwe)
affiliation: Organization for advanced and integrated Research, Kobe University (Kobe)
affiliation: Akshaya Patra Foundation (Bangalore)
affiliation: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (Lilongwe)
country: India
country: Malawi
country: Japan
title: Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India
ispublished: pub
subjects: S1.5
subjects: ka
subjects: s2.17
subjects: s26
subjects: s32
divisions: CRPS5
divisions: CRPS4
divisions: SMCO
full_text_status: public
keywords: school feeding program; mid-day meal; millets; sensory evaluation; undernutrition; Karnataka; India; malnutrition; children
note: The authors thank the Government of Karnataka for approving to conduct this study which
was supported by Akshaya Patra, ICRISAT, and the Smart Food Endowment Fund.
abstract: The study assessed the potential for use of millets in mid-day school meal programs for better nutritional outcomes of children in a peri-urban region of Karnataka, India, where children conventionally consumed a fortified rice-based mid-day meal. For a three-month period, millet-based mid-day meals were fed to 1500 adolescent children at two schools, of which 136 were studied as the intervention group and were compared with 107 other children in two other schools that did not receive the intervention. The intervention design was equivalent to the parallel group, two-arm, superiority trial with a 1:1 allocation ratio. The end line allocation ratio was 1.27:1 due to attrition. It was found that there was statistically significant improvement in stunting (p = 0.000) and the body mass index (p = 0.003) in the intervention group and not in the control group (p = 0.351 and p = 0.511, respectively). The sensory evaluation revealed that all the millet-based menu items had high acceptability, with the highest scores for the following three items: finger millet idli, a steam cooked fermented savory cake; little and pearl millet bisi belle bath, a millet-lentil hot meal; and upma, a pearl and little millet-vegetable meal. These results suggest significant potential for millets to replace or supplement rice in school feeding programs for improved nutritional outcomes of children.
date: 2019-09
date_type: published
publication: Nutrients (TSI)
volume: 11
number: 9
publisher: MDPI
pagerange: 1-16
id_number: 10.3390/nu11092077
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2072-6643
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11092077
citation:   Anitha, S and Kane-Potaka, J and Tsusaka, T W and Tripathi, D and Upadhyay, S and Kavishwar, A and Jalagam, A and Sharma, N and Nedumaran, S  (2019) Acceptance and Impact of Millet-Based Mid-Day Meal on the Nutritional Status of Adolescent School Going Children in a Peri Urban Region of Karnataka State in India.  Nutrients (TSI), 11 (9).  pp. 1-16.  ISSN 2072-6643     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/11277/1/nutrients-11-02077.pdf