The nutritional status of children aged 1–3 years old based on food processing techniques in Surabaya
2018
Food processing can aect the nutritional components within food. This contributes toward the status of
nutrition. The objective of this research was to identify the nutritional status of children based on food
processing technique. The research was carried out in Kenjeran Urban Village, Bulak Sub-District, Surabaya.
The design of this research used a prospective cohort. The overall population amounted to 144 respondents
using simple random sampling for the nal amount of 105 respondents. The instrument of this research was
a questionnaire and nutritional status measurement in accordance with the provision of Ministry of Health,
of the Republic of Indonesia. The results of this research showed that there is a relationship between food
processing technique and the nutritional status of children. The result of the Spearman Rho correlation
analysis was that it obtained a value of r=0.001 (<0.05). The value of the absolute coecient correlation
was 0.435 therefore the level of this relationship is an average level relationship. Those with a unfavourable
daily food processing technique accounts for 18 individuals (17.1%) and a favourable technique accounts for
87 individuals (82.9%). Food processing can aect the nutritional status of children. However, nutritional
status can be inuenced by several other factors. The inuential factors of nutritional status include the
heredity factor and the passive measure of food supply.
Keywords: food processing technique, nutritional status
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