5. Summary of interventions.
| Systematic review | Population | Supplementary feeding | Intervention categories (as per review) | Intervention summary (number of studies) | |||||
| Supplementary food/drinka | Non‐foodb | Other | |||||||
| No added micronutrients | Added micronutrients | No added micronutrients | Added micronutrients | ||||||
| Droogsma 2014 | Adults with Alzheimer's disease | — | T | Oral nutritional supplements (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Grobler 2013 | Adults who were HIV positive | Children who were HIV positive (3 studies) | B and T | Supplementary food (2) | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| Macronutrient supplements providing energy and protein (6) | |||||||||
| Specific macronutrient supplements (6) | |||||||||
| Grobler 2016 | Adults with TB | Children with TB (3 studies)c | B and T | Supplementary food (5) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 28 (micronutrients only) |
| Macronutrient formulas providing energy and protein (2) | |||||||||
| Micronutrients (28)d | |||||||||
| Kristjansson 2007 | — | Disadvantaged school children (aged 5 to 19 years) | B | Supplementary food, snacks and drinks (18) | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kristjansson 2015a | — | Disadvantaged infants and children (aged 3 months to 5 years) | B | Supplementary food, snacks and drinks (32) | 12 | 2 | 17 | 1 | 2 (nutritional counselling) |
| 1 (health‐sanitation programme) | |||||||||
| 1 (day‐care centre) | |||||||||
| 1 (day‐care centre + vitamin mineral supplement and sanitation) | |||||||||
| 1 (stimulation only) | |||||||||
| Lazzerini 2013 | — | Children with MAM (< 5 years of age) | T | Supplementary food, including LNS, blended foods, complementary LNS and blended foods (8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8e | 0 |
| Ota 2015 | Pregnant women | — | B and T | Balanced energy/protein supplementation (12) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 (nutrition advice only) |
| High protein supplementation (1) | |||||||||
| Isocaloric protein supplementation (2) | |||||||||
| Nutritional advice (4)d | |||||||||
| Sguassero 2012 | — | Children < 5 years of age in LMIC | B and T | Supplementary food, snacks and drinks (8) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| B: blanket;LMIC: low and middle‐income country; LNS: lipid‐based nutrient supplement; MAM: moderate acute malnutrition; T: targeted; TB: tuberculosis. | |||||||||
aSupplementary food/drink: actual food to eat or fluid to drink as would be found in a household. bNon‐food: any powder, commercially prepared liquid supplement, mixtures. cNone relevant to this review. dExcluded from this overview. eThis review focused on foods developed for the treatment of MAM, including: LNS, blended food supplements, complementary food supplements.