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Did you know that during GMA, chocolate crinkles fortified with Iron were prepared to feed Filipino children?
No one can resist chocolates and cookies. These food items are all time favorite snack items among children and adults alike. Various recipes are constantly formulated to satisfy cravings for such.
In the Philippines, chocolate crinkles are popular snack items among children. Chocolate crinkles are deliciously soft, fudge-like chocolate cookies, encased in a coating of confectioner’s sugar. Because of its popularity among children, the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST) saw its high potential to be fortified with iron.
The persisting problem on iron deficiency anemia (IDA) remains high among various population groups. The prevalence rate of IDA among infants and young children 6 months to 5 years old is 32.4 percent; and for pregnant and lactating women 43.0 percent. This alarming problem of IDA and the requirement of most school canteens to sell products with Sangkap Pinoy Seal (SPS) encouraged the Moonbake, Incorporated to fortify chocolate crinkles with iron with the technical assistance of FNRI-DOST. Moonbake Incorporated is a company that manufactures and distributes bakery products. Five pieces or a 35-gram serving size of chocolate crinkles provides 1/3 of the Recommended Energy and Nutrient Intake (RENI) for iron of school-aged children.
The development of chocolate crinkles prompted the FNRI-DOST to conduct supplementary feeding as an intervention program using Moonbake’s chocolate crinkles among public elementary and high school children in Subic, Zambales. These fortified crinkles were also distributed in different wet markets, groceries and in 600 schools in the National Capital Region (NCR), Cavite and Laguna. Moreover, the product was part of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s gift packs for the gift giving and service program for the poor in Malibay, Pasay.
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