Development of Recipe Composition of Specialized Canned Meat for Feeding Young Children

The need to use functional food products is due to their ability to have a beneficial effect on the human body. Functional products are those that contain ingredients that have a targeted positive effect on the human body. It is known that functional food products include therapeutic and prophylactic products, dietary products or those intended for therapeutic nutrition, enriched with certain micronutrients, as well as products for children and gerontological nutrition. One of the areas of the food industry is the development of meat products for young children. In recent years, pediatricians have increasingly paid attention to the influence of child nutrition in the early stages of development on the subsequent health of an adult. It has been proven that undernutrition of the fetus and overnutrition of the child in the first year of life are risk factors for the development of obesity, diabetes, and early atherosclerosis. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an urgent problem is the development of food allergies in children in the early stages of development associated with poor nutrition. A history of food allergy symptoms was observed in 17.3% of children. The physiological characteristics of young children include a relatively high growth rate, brain development, rapid development of psychomotor functions, and the desire to eat food independently without the participation of adults, while at the same time taste habits and taste preferences are formed. In connection with the above, the direction of research in the field of creating new meat products enriched with functional plant components for feeding young children and managing their quality is relevant.