Dietary Habits for Toddler Growth using Particles Swarm Optimization Algorithms

The age grouping of children used in the health program at the Indonesian Ministry of Health, the term baby (0 to less than one year), toddler (1 to 3 years), and preschool (3 to 5 years). Giving the wrong food to children can cause children to experience malnutrition. The danger of malnutrition in children for a long time can cause stunting. Stunting is a condition of growth failure in children (body and brain growth) due to a lack of nutrition for a long time. Thus, the child is shorter than normal children his age and has a delay in thinking. Malnourished children do not only have an impact on health complaints in the future. But it also makes children unable to grow optimally, thus interfering with their productivity when they grow up. Nutritional needs are an important factor during a child's growth period. In preparing a diet, you must pay attention to a balanced and varied menu, including the type of food in an appropriate amount. To meet the body's nutritional needs for the maintenance of cells in the body and the process of child development. Therefore, an application was created that can provide a combination of menus and dietary patterns for toddler and preschool age. This application uses the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm in finding the best menu combination according to the child's age and physical condition. The results obtained in this study are dietary suggestions for toddlers and preschool age. The system test results have an accuracy of 90%.