Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is characterised by a sudden major weight loss requiring a quick nutritional and medical intervention.
VALID Nutrition has developed Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) to treat SAM in children over 6 months old and adults. RUTF are for institutional use and should be consumed only under the recommendation of a health or nutrition professional. Two different formulations of RUTF currently exist: one based on peanut and milk (P-RUTF) and another based on soyabean, maize and sorghum with no milk or peanuts (SMS-RUTF).
P-RUTF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
SMS RUTF Product Factsheet
Products: Overview | Severe acute malnutrition | Moderate acute malnutrition | Chronic malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is characterised by a sudden major weight loss requiring a quick nutritional and medical intervention.
VALID Nutrition has developed Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) to treat SAM in children over 6 months and adults. It is for institutional use and should be consumed only under the recommendation of a health or nutrition professional.
RUTF Product Factsheet
Note: Breastfeeding is recommended until at least 24 months (exclusive up to 6 months). All VALID Nutrition products are for children > 6 months and do not replace breastfeeding.
Dr Steve Collins reflects on the opportunities and problems associated with the USD$250 million contribution announced by Administrator, Samantha Power of USAID – a positive catalyst for change?
VALID commissioned and achieved peer-review of a professional report to quantify objectively the overall climate impact profile of the amino-acid enhanced, plant-based RUTF recipe. It has found that the overall global warming potential impacts of the plant-based RUTF recipe are 47%-52% less than the milk-peanut based recipe.
Dr Steve Collins gives a hugely informative and enlightened interview to ENN podcast while discussing his candid Reflections on the UN Global Action Plan on Wasting.