Nutrition problems in elementary school still become one topic that is always discussed whether globally or nationally. Currently, Indonesia faces nutrition problems of children who suffer of malnutrition and poor nutrition. This study aims to look at the effect to look at the effect of date juice on the nutritional status (weight / age) of children aged 6-12 nutrition in Elementary School Nurul Muttaqin Bole Sinjai.
The study design was an experimental Quaisy of 10 children sample in the treatment group and 10 children in the control group were selected using pusposive sampling techniques. The treatment group was given a date juice during the study while the control group was given at the end of the study.
The results of this study based on the Mann-Whitney test shows that the comparison between the treatment group and the control group at the end of the study showed no significant difference with p value of 0.24> 0.05. But the Wilcoxon test results showed that there were significant differences before and after giving date juice in the treatment group with p value 0.008