Developing Curcuma xanthorrhiza Yogurt Ice Cream and Milk Sticks to Improve Child Nutrition in Tempuran Village, Pasuruan

Child undernutrition remains a persistent community health concern, and local food assets can be used to strengthen the practical delivery of supplementary feeding programs. This paper aimed to formulate two child-friendly milk-based foods using locally available fresh milk and Curcuma xanthorrhiza, and to implement them through a cadre-led community program in Tempuran Village, Pasuruan. The program used an Asset Based Community Development approach to map the local dairy supply, co-design products with stakeholders, and conduct hands-on production training together with a balanced nutrition workshop. A one-group pretest and posttest design assessed learning outcomes among 20 cadres, whereas child outcomes were descriptively summarized from routine weight and height records for 16 indicated children monitored from August to November 2025 using official Posyandu (Integrated Health Post) classifications aligned with the WHO Child Growth Standards. Post-assessment results were higher than baseline scores across all cadre competency domains. Among the 16 monitored children, mean body weight increased from 9.9 kg at baseline to 10.8 kg in November. The proportion categorized as underweight decreased from 50.0% to 18.7%, whereas the proportion with low height-for-age decreased from 25.0% to 12.5% during the monitoring period. These findings indicate that standardized dairy-based supplementary foods combined with cadre capacity building and routine growth monitoring can be feasibly integrated into community services and may support measurable short-term improvements in child nutritional status. Future program development should focus on integrating standardized dairy-based supplementary food packages into routine Posyandu services and strengthening sustainable cadre-led implementation at the household level. However, these findings were based on short-term routine monitoring in a limited community sample.