A new binary programming and mathematical approach for serving healthy and palatable menu

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 dseases 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. Dietitiam, 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 chldren, reducing the processing time of optimal solution, minimize cost and also serve variety type of food eveIy day. The data was obtained from the Minishy of Health Malaysian and also school authorities. Bmaq 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 spods, chronic illness patients, militaries, universities, hospitals and nursing homes.