Categories Archives: Product Formulation and Development

Development of a cross-over randomized trial method to determine the acceptability and safety of novel ready-to-use therapeutic foods.

Nutrition. 2013 Jan;29(1):107-12. doi: 10.1016/j.nut. 2012.04.016. Epub 2012 Sep 13.

Randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of a soybean-maize-sorghum based ready-to-use complementary food paste on infant growth in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, AJCN (Am J Clin Nutr 2012;95:1157-1164)

Low-cost, Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods can be designed using locally available commodities with the aid of Linear Programming, Journal of Nutrition

The Journal of nutrition, 142(5), 955-961.

Development and acceptability of a novel milk-free soybean–maize–sorghum ready-to-use therapeutic food (SMS-RUTF) based on industrial extrusion cooking process, Maternal Child Health

Improving the treatment of severe acute malnutrition in childhood: a randomized controlled trial of synbiotic-enhanced therapeutic food with long term follow-up of post-treatment mortality and morbidity

(Doctoral dissertation, UCL (University College London)

Breast-milk intake of 9–10 month old rural infants given a ready-to-use complementary food in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, AJCN (Am J Clin Nutr 2011;93:1300–4)

Acceptability and effectiveness of chickpea sesame-based ready-to-use therapeutic food in malnourished HIV-positive adults.

Probiotics and prebiotics for severe acute malnutrition (PRONUT study): a double-blind efficacy randomised controlled trial in Malawi

Lancet. 2009 Jul 11;374(9684):136-44. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)60884-9.

Local production of ready-to-use therapeutic food for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition

Food Chain, 2(2), 183-196

Alternative RUTF formulations, Emergency Nutrition Network, (Special Supplement 2)