UNS — Public poster from Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta students team won 1st prize in This is Our Care (TOC) 2021 competition. The team that consisted of Aninda Nuzullatifah, Dea Novita Ifanka Putri Fachilla, and Amelia Fajrin, students of Diploma Program (D-4) in Work Health (K3) Vocational School (SV) UNS, submitted work on the “Innovation for Additional Nutrition/Breastmilk Complementary Foods during the Golden Age in Optimizing Children Intelligence” sub-theme.
In the competition held by the students of the Faculty of Nursing Universitas Padjadjaran (Unpad) that raised the theme of “Nutrismart: Fulfilling Children Nutritional Needs through Collaborative Intervention to Shape Smart Generation for Golden Indonesia 2045,” the team submitted a work titled “KURAJIN: Gluten and Casein Free Nutrition in Optimizing Nutritional Intake and the Development of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).” The team discussed the issues regarding the lack of community knowledge on fulfilling the nutritional needs of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) because they have exceptional metabolism that prohibits them from consuming foods with gluten and casein.
“In the poster, we shared innovation of KURAJIN (Rice Flour Biscuits and Tajin-Rice Water) as an appropriate solution for the issue. KURAJIN is an innovation on healthy nutrition in the form of complementary foods made from rice, accessible, and free from gluten and casein,” Dea explained to uns.ac.id on Wednesday (1/12/2021).
Further, Dea added that their innovation is a nutritious complementary food that is food for children’s development, especially children with autism that do not worsen the children’s condition. The main challenge for the team in achieving the title was in finding the idea for this innovation due to the difference between the topic and their main study major. Dea also explained that education on nutrition fulfillment for children with autism is still rare to be discussed in Indonesia.
Dea said that her team was delighted and grateful to be announced as the winner and thanked all her fellows in D-4 K3 UNS Program who have supported them. She also hoped that the innovation they shared through the poster could educate the community that rice can be processed into various types of food. She also hoped that the poster could create equality for children with autism by providing gluten-free and casein-free biscuits. Humas UNS
Reporter: Rangga Pangestu Adji
Editor: Dwi Hastuti