Therapeutic Food Development from Maize Grains, Pulses, and Cooking Banana Fruits for the Prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Formulation</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Types of antinutritional factors</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">Phytate (<i>μ</i>g/g)</td><td class="align_center">Tannin (<i>μ</i>g/g)</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">RUTF1 (NG)</td><td class="align_center">369.30 ± 0.39a</td><td class="align_center">153.25 ± 0.35a</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">RUTF2 (G)</td><td class="align_center">323.63 ± 0.29c</td><td class="align_center">101.36 ± 0.46c</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">RUTF3 (MNGG)</td><td class="align_center">314.74 ± 0.42 b</td><td class="align_center">131.41 ± 0.11b</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td><div>RUTF1, ready-to-use therapeutic food1; RUTF2, ready-to-use therapeutic food2; RUTF3, ready-to-use therapeutic food3; SRUTF, standard ready-to-use therapeutic food; NG, nongerminated; G, germinated; MNGG, mixtures of nongerminated and germinated. Similar letters indicate that there are no significant differences in the three products, and different letters indicate that there is a significant difference in the products.<br/></div></td></tr></table>

<div>Anti-nutritional factors of ready-to-use therapeutic foods.</div>

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Table 3: Therapeutic Food Development from Maize Grains, Pulses, and Cooking Banana Fruits for the Prevention of Severe Acute Malnutrition 