THE EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF TODDLERS THROUGH SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING WITH SNAKEHEAD FISH SUBSTITUTION: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Lack of nutritional intake can lead to malnutrition in children which will affect the growth and development of children. Supplementary feeding (PMT) made from local food is one of the strategies for handling nutrition problems in toddlers. One of the local foods that contain many nutrients is snakehead fish, which is a source of complete and high-quality animal protein. A non-systematic literature review that discussed the effect of snakehead fish substitution supplementary food with nutritional status in toddlers. The literature search was conducted through the Google Scholar search site with keyword searches such as supplementary food, nutritional status, snakehead fish. The synthesized articles are experimental studies with restrictions from 2013 to 2023. The journal format used was PDF, in Indonesian and English, and was a free journal. The research results of these three articles are that there is a significant difference in changes in WAZ (p = 0.034) and WHZ (p = 0.017) of stunted toddlers between group-1 and group-2, there is a significant difference (p = 0.01) in the increase in weight and height of undernourished children aged 3-5 years between treatment group F15 and group F0 and there is a significant difference (p = 0.029) in the weight of children aged 1236 months between the two groups. Supplementary feeding with cork fish substitution can improve nutritional status based on body weight index according to age and body weight index according to height and can reduce stunting rates (height for age) in children under five. The suggestion that can be given is that improving nutritional status in toddlers can be done by providing additional food by maximizing local food products.