ABSTRACT
@#According to ESPEN, surgical and cancer patients with high risk of malnutrition need to receive additional nutrition during the perioperative period. Most of the hospitals in Indonesia provide that through enteral food that is made of real food (homemade/non-industrial) for surgical patients. But this kind of enteral nutrition has several weaknesses. The development of enteral food has been done using local food that has complete nutrients and it can be given to surgical patients. This research aims to provide nutritional foods with high protein and antioxidants for malnourished recti cancer patients undergoing surgery. This product was made from local Indonesian food ingredients that is safe to consume and widely accepted by patients. The result showed that the effect of additional nutritional support through the formulated enteral food showed changes in the patient’s nutritional status during the perioperative period. Also, the absence of postoperative complications indicates that this nutritional support is effective for surgical patients during the preoperative period.