Abstract

Complimentary food is any food or drink given to infants in addition to breast milk or formula when breast milk alone is no longer enough to meet their nutritional needs. This experiment was conducted to evaluate the chemical composition of complementary food produced from malted rice (Oryza sativa), tiger nuts (Cyperus esculentus) and defatted sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum).The complimentary food were produced from varied ratios of malted rice, tiger nut and defatted sesame seed flours (100:0:0; 80:15:5;70:25:5; 82.5:10:7.5; 80:10:10 and 77.55:10:12.5, respectively). Ogi and Cerelac were used as the control sample. The chemical composition of prepared complimentary food was determined using standard methods. The data obtained were analysed statistically using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) (25.0).