Authors : Maselan Ali, Suliadi Sufahani, Zuhaimy Ismail and Norazman Arbin
Abstract: School children need to eat a well balance nutritious food that provides enough nutrients for development, preservation and restoration of the human body. Moreover, with proper nutrient, it can prevent any undesirable diseases and infections. Recently, medical discovery shows that by consuming well balanced nutritious food, it can help to prevent and diminish the risks of cancer and heart failure. Dietitians, nutritionist and menu planners confronted with incredible tasks and complications in order to expand human wellbeing. Serving healthier meals is a major step towards achieving one of the objectives for this study but assembling a well balance and nutritious menu by hand is complex, ineffective and takes time. Therefore, the objective of this study is to develop a mathematical method for menu scheduling that satisfy the entire nutrient requirement for school children, reducing the processing time of optimal solution, minimize cost and also serve variety type of food every day. The data was obtained from the Ministry of Health Malaysian and also school authorities. Binary Programming along with optimization method was used to solve this problem. In future, this model can be implemented to other menu problems such as for sports, chronic illness patients, militaries, universities, hospitals and nursing homes.
Maselan Ali, Suliadi Sufahani, Zuhaimy Ismail and Norazman Arbin, 2017. A New Binary Programming and Mathematical Approach for Serving Healthy and Palatable Menu. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 1958-1960.