journal of kerbala university

This study was aimed to prepare a therapeutic ready to use foods for infants which carries the same specifications of the therapeutic food F100 for home preparation as suitable substitute, to rehabilitate and to avoid infants malnutrition with good appetite in between 6 – 24 month of age. Various proportions of whole powdered milk, germinated and ungerminated rice flour, dried apples and dehydrated potatoes were used to construct food formulas and studying the shelf life of the selected formulas . The results revealed that both food formulas (8) and (11) have good shelf life for up to two month at cold storage at (4-5)0 C and room temperature (27 2) 0 C, which is estimated by the number of Thiobarbituric acid. Microbial tests showed accepted results in aspect of total number of the aerobic bacteria in both formulas (8) and (11) stored under cold storage at (4-5) 0 C and at room temperature (27 2) 0 C for a period of two months. The two chosen formulas showed that they were free of Coliform bacteria, Staphylococcus bacteria and Lipolytic bacteria.