What is it about?
This manuscript describes the protocol for a study in Tanzania designed to determine whether food aid porridges made using sorghum and cowpea, rather than traditional corn and soy, are equally beneficial to children under 5 years of age.
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Why is it important?
Because it describes the details of the trial. A subsequent article (https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzz027) found that sorghum and cowpea based food aid porridges led to equivalent outcomes to corn soy based food aid porridges. This means that sorghum and cowpea based food aid porridges are viable food aid alternatives, which may allow them to be procured and produced more locally.
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This page is a summary of: The MFFAPP Tanzania Efficacy Study Protocol: Newly Formulated, Extruded, Fortified Blended Foods for Food Aid, Current Developments in Nutrition, April 2017, American Society for Nutrition,
DOI: 10.3945/cdn.116.000315.
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Resources
2017 Global Food Systems - New sorghum product improves child nutrition
This video shows and describes the project.
Complementary Feeding of Sorghum-Based and Corn-Based Fortified Blended Foods Results in Similar Iron, Vitamin A and Anthropometric Outcomes in the MFFAPP Tanzania Efficacy Study
Manuscript describe the results of the efficacy study.
Bioavailable Iron and Vitamin A in Newly Formulated, Extruded Corn, Soybean, Sorghum and Cowpea Fortified-Blended Foods in the In-vitro Digestion/Caco-2 Cell Model
In vitro bioavailability work related to the project.
Newly formulated, extruded sorghum, cowpea, corn, and soy containing fortified-blended foods lead to adequate vitamin A, iron outcomes and improved growth compared with CSB+ in rats.
Rat bioavailability study.
Novel Formulated Fortified Blended Foods Result in Improved Protein Efficiency and Hepatic Iron Levels Compared to CSB+ in Broiler Chickens
Study on newer FBFs in broiler chickens.
Nutrient Cost-Effectiveness of Fortified Blended Food Aid Products
Describes the economics of food aid porridges produced from different commodities and producing them in different countries.
Is the Inclusion of Animal Source Foods in Fortified Blended Foods Justified?
Review focused on whether there is justification for the inclusion of often costly animal protein sources in food aid porridges.
Use of Grain Sorghum in Extruded Products Developed for Gluten-free and Food Aid Applications
Part of this chapter describes some of our work in producing the extruded food aid porridges.
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