Study	Reason for Exclusion
Agha 2004 [67]	This study did not have an appropriate control group.
Aguayo 2018 [68]	The study design was not appropriate.
Ahmed 1999 [69]	The study design was not appropriate.
Ashworth 2004 [70]	The study design was not appropriate.
Bachou 2008 [71]	The study design was not appropriate.
Badaloo 1999 [72]	This study did not assess the intervention of interest; study compared high protein formula with low protein formula.
Baker 1978 [73]	The study did not assess the intervention of interest; study compared milk diet with soy-maize-porridge diet.
Bhandari 2001 [74]	The study did not assess the intervention of interest; study compared food supplementation with counselling with nutritional counselling alone.
Burza 2016 [75]	The study design was not appropriate.
Donnen 2007 [76]	This study included children up to 14 years of age
Dubray 2008 [77]	This study compared two different antibiotics (ceftriaxone vs amoxicillin) in children with SAM and did not have an appropriate control group (no antibiotic/placebo).
Javan 2017 [78]	This study was conducted in Upper Middle Income Country.
Linneman 2007 [79]	This study did not have an appropriate control group.
Nagar 2016 [80]	This study did not have an appropriate control group.
Roy 2005 [81]	The study did not assess the intervention of interest; study compared supplementary feeding with education to feeding alone.
Simpore 2006 [82]	This study did not have an appropriate control group.
Zongo 2013 [83]	The study did not assess the intervention of interest; the study compared Moringa leaf in addition to the usual porridge diet.