Aplikasi Pangan Fungsional Sebagai Makanan Sehat Khusus Balita dan Anak-Anak pada Kelompok Majelis Taklim Masjid Al-Ikhlas Kelurahan Surabaya Kecamatan Sungai Serut Kota Bengkulu

Abstract

Disease trends in Indonesia have started to increase into over nutrition and under nutrition which is often called "double burden" triggers the birth of various degenerative diseases. Bad habits that often occur in the community include a faster first feeding time, more frequent eating frequencies leading to more nutrition and bad habits of children only interested in favorite foods such as noodles, ice cream and nuggets causing malnutrition problems, especially products on the market susceptible to hygiene and the addition of preservatives and dyes. The same condition also occurred in the Taklim Assembly community group Al-Ikhlas Mosque, Surabaya Village, Sungai Serut Subdistrict, Bengkulu City, which consists of housewives from four RTs in Surabaya, Sungai Serut Subdistrict, Bengkulu City. Unfortunately, creativity, knowledge and skills of low housewives become a barrier to making healthy food. Therefore, community service activities are carried out by the Stimulus Community Partnership Program Team (PKMS) in the form of training in processing technology, packaging, determining consumer acceptability, estimating shelf life, and marketing of healthy food functional food applications for toddlers and children so that the formation of entrepreneurial groups with supporting facilities in the form of production equipment.