This life -saving mixture is Plump. Developed by the producer of Normandy Nutriset in 1996 by the French pediatrician André Bried, he was the first ready -to -use therapeutic food (Rutf): energy pasta that have increased the survival rates of serious acute malnutrition in children from less than 25 % to about 90 percent.
The pasta saved tens of millions of lives. “It is an incredibly effective emergency food,” says doctor Steve Collins, founder of the Advocacy Valide Nutrition group. “Rutf contains all the essential nutrients necessary for someone to recover from a serious acute malnutrition. They are easy to transport, extremely full of energy and do not require a cold -cried supply chain or clean water to work.”
While the Nutriset product was the first Rutf to be developed, it is not the only brand in this important field. ManaFor example, it is an American manufacture Rutf produced in Fitzgerald, Georgia. The company says that it can earn 500,000 pounds of product per day, as well as filling four containers and feed 10 million children per year.
Before Plumpy’nut, cases of severe acute malnutrition-which occur mainly among children under the age of 5, diagnosed with very low weight scores and circumference of the arm-ncessing for round care in therapeutic power supply centers. The nurses in these improvised hospitals in the often remote areas would feed F100 children, a high energy milk powder also produced by Nutriset. The bacteria were often widespread. “There was always the risk that the water was contaminated and transported diseases,” says Collins. It is one of the reasons why mortality rates for hospital care are hidden About 20 percent.
Over half of the chubby is made of peanut paste and vegetable oils. The primary hazelnut base contains soluble fatty nutrients, as well as protein, energy and fatty acids that trigger recovery. Almost a quarter is the skimmed milk, containing dairy proteins -casear and essential amino acids, protein bricks. Another fourth is reserved for sugar: break through the taste of added micronutrients: potassium, magnesium, calcium, iron, zinc, iodine, copper, selenium and vitamins A, D, E, complex, C and K.
The apocryphal story is that Bried’s idea for the wonder that it is chubby came from a jar of Nutella. In fact, it came from the first -hand experience at the forefront of Sahel: the water -based solution did not work: the infants were still dying. Working with the founder of Nutriset Michel Lescanne, his idea was to add F100 to a spread of peanuts (a common harvest in areas of malnutrition and a natural source rich in protein) with oil and sugar.