TY  - JOUR
T1  - A New Binary Programming and Mathematical Approach for
Serving Healthy and Palatable Menu
AU - Sufahani, Suliadi AU - Ali, Maselan AU - Ismail, Zuhaimy AU - Arbin, Norazman 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 8
SP  - 1958
EP  - 1960
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.1958.1960
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.1958.1960
KW  - Binary programming
KW  -mathematical modeling
KW  -menu scheduling
KW  -decision making
KW  -optimization
AB  - 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.
ER  -