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Hunger in Myanmar Being Battled by Space-Age Foods
Easy to transport and ready to eat, they have a much longer shelf life than traditional foods, making it that much easier to aid Myanmar, where large numbers of children suffer from malnutrition at the best of times.
And kids even seem to like them.
"They're really like medicine in lots of ways," says Bruce Cogill, a global nutrition coordinator with the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF.
"These are high-end products. When they can't get them to a disaster zone, kids get gruel or porridge."
BP-5 is better known as a high-energy biscuit -- a space-age cookie packed with nutrients that gets called into service when, as aid agencies grimly put it, there are cases of "moderate starvation."
Plumpy'nut, invented just a decade ago by a French scientist, resembles a dried peanut-butter candy bar. Wrapped in foil, it is primarily intended for "acute severe malnutrition," the most dangerous level of hunger.
Both are high-tech solutions for an age-old problem -- how to keep hungry people alive.
Aid groups say Plumpy'nut can help kids gain up to two kilos a week -- which can mean the difference between life and death in Myanmar, where Save the Children said thousands of children will die soon unless they get enough food.
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