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Nutribun

Bread product

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Nutribun, also referred to as Nutri-bun or Nutriban, is a bread product used in elementary school feeding programs in the Philippines to combat child malnutrition, initially as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Food for Peace program from 1971 to 1997, and later as part of the child health programs of various Philippine cities.

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“Nutribun” enters the record as bread product. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nutribun, Bread and product can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nutribun, Bread and product.
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“Nutribun” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nutribun, Bread and product provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nutribun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.