The problem of malnutrition that has received much attention recently is the problem of chronic nutrition in the form of stunting. One of the factors that cause stunting in toddlers is food intake. The provision of supplementary food containing complete nutrition can be used as an effort to prevent stunting in children. This community service was carried out in Bangun Rejo Village, Tanjung Morawa District, Deli Serdang Regency with the target community being the PKK Cadre group and mothers with stunting children. The purpose of this community service activity is to convey information about stunting children and how to prevent it, as well as train the target community to utilize and process food ingredients such as white oyster mushrooms, taro flour, catfish, rebon shrimp and lemuru fish into nuggets as a snack for children. stunting. The results of community service activities showed an increase in the participants' knowledge about stunting and how to prevent it, as well as skills to make catfish, rebon shrimp, lemuru fish, and oyster mushroom nuggets as snacks for stunted children.
Increasing body immunity is very necessary after the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the efforts that can be made to increase the body's immunity is to consume functional foods with immunostimulant activity, such as processed snakehead fish products in the form of nuggets, and "parkusel" juice made from a mixture of bitter melon, dates and celery. The purpose of community service is to provide knowledge and skills to housewives and the community at the Veteran ABRI Housing Complex in Medan Estate, Deli Serdang Regency, in making functional food products in the form of snakehead fish nuggets and Perkusel juice. The community service method used is the counseling method with leafet aids and training in making snakehead fish nuggets and perkusel juice. The results of the activity showed that there was an increase in the knowledge of the community participants in community service activities about nutritious snack products that can increase body immunity by 71% in the good value category.
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