Goat Milk Utilization as Complementary Feeding of Children after Six Month to Reduce Undernourished Rate in Indonesia

Abstract

Background/ Objectives and Goals: Undernourished is one of the health problems faced by the world today, especially in Indonesia with the percentage of undernourished children under 5 years old is 19.6% or 4,646,933 from 23,708,844 children. For young children, breastmilk is the best food and complementary food after six months that is usually produced from cow milk is needed. Another problem comes, 2-7,5% children has the allergy of cow milk and choose soy milk as recommended by health workers, although it is more expensive (100,000,00 IDR or 6.9 USD/1000 grams) than cow milk (68,000,00 IDR or 4.74 USD/1000 grams). To solve this issue, goat milk is one of good alternatives food for considering as a complementary food. Goat milk has beneficiary things such as treating malabsorption syndrome and undernourished children. Besides that, according to the Statistic Center Board/Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), the number of the goat population in Indonesia is 18,879,596, more than cow population which is 16,019,459. For further evaluating the advantage of goat milk, we conducted a review study. Methods: We search all literature published in the year 2004-2014 on PubMed and science direct using keyword