Evaluation of Anemic Pupils Nutritional Status Fed with Recipes Based on Sweet Potatoes, Soya and Cowpea in Nawa Region, Côte d’Ivoire

Agbo Adouko Edith Chiakoun^{1, 2,} , Bléyéré Nahounou Matthieu³, Allico Jean Maurel⁴, Méité Souleymane⁴, Bredou Atta Georges¹, Brou Kouakou², Djaman Allico Joseph⁴ and Kouamé Christophe¹

¹World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), 08 BP 2823 Abidjan 08, Côte d’Ivoire

²Food and Nutritional Security Laboratory, Nangui Abrogoua University, 02 BP 801 Abidjan 02, Côte d’Ivoire

³Physiology, pharmacology and pharmacopoeia laboratory, Nangui Abrogoua University, 02 BP 801 Abidjan 02, Côte d’Ivoire

⁴Department of Biochemistry Basic and Clinical Unit of Toxicology, Phytochemistry and Metabolomics, Pasteur Institute of Côte d’Ivoire, P.O. Box 490, Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire

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Agbo Adouko Edith Chiakoun, Bléyéré Nahounou Matthieu, Allico Jean Maurel, Méité Souleymane, Bredou Atta Georges, Brou Kouakou, Djaman Allico Joseph and Kouamé Christophe. Evaluation of Anemic Pupils Nutritional Status Fed with Recipes Based on Sweet Potatoes, Soya and Cowpea in Nawa Region, Côte d’Ivoire. American Journal of Public Health Research. 2021; 9(4):142-148. doi: 10.12691/AJPHR-9-4-3

Abstract

In underdeveloped countries a great number of school-age children suffered of malnutrition and anemia. This is due to a less diversified diet and had an impact on their intellectual capacities. A study was conducted in four schools in Nawa region of Côte d’Ivoire with the aim to evaluate the impact of selected foods on anemic children nutritional status. One meal was proposed by school: rice with tomato sauce and meat, sweet potatoes stew with soya, sweet potatoes stew with cowpea and sweet potatoes stew with soya and cowpea. A total of 75 children aged from 6 to 15 years old participate, and they ate the meals twice in a week for 3 months. Anthropometric measurements (weight and height) and blood sampling were taken at 3 periods: at the beginning, middle and end of the study. The results showed that hemoglobin values were under normal rate for all children except in Petit-Bondoukou and Takoreagui in period 1 (11.67 and 11.82 g/dl respectively). There was an increase of anemia prevalence from 18.18 % to 40.91 % for children who ate rice with tomato sauce and meat and from 43.75 % to 50.00 % for children who ate potatoes stew with cowpea. But there was a decrease of anemia rate from 61.54 % to 53.83 % for children who ate potatoes stew with soya. Nutritional status according to anthropometric measurement increased for children of Gnaboya and Petit-Bondoukou. Albumin (33.25 g/l) and orosomucoid (0.69 mg/l) value of children who ate tomato sauce and meat were lower in period 1 than that of children of the other villages. According to prognostic inflammatory nutritional index, children present a low malnutrition risk which varied between 7.69 to 43.75 %. Diet diversification should be applied for a long period to better appreciate their impact on nutritional and anemia status improvement.

Keywords

children, diversified diets, anemia, nutritional status

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