Abstract

Nutritional status data from the 2023 SKI data in Indonesia show that as many as 14.1% of children experience stunting, which indicates chronic malnutrition that can affect children's growth and development. As many as 81.3% of children have normal nutritional status, indicating that the majority of children in Indonesia receive adequate nutritional intake. Based on data from the 2022 Indonesian Nutritional Status Survey (SSGI), Maluku Province has the lowest proportion of overweight elementary school children in Indonesia, which is 1.5%. This type of research is quantitative research that looks at the relationship between breakfast and nutritional status and academic achievement in elementary school students. The independent variable in this study is the amount of energy in students' breakfast, while the independent variables are nutritional status and academic achievement. Breakfast is the average percentage of energy in food or drinks consumed at breakfast as measured by a 3x24-hour recall form. The number of respondents who have less energy intake at breakfast and have poor nutritional status is 15 people (42.9%), and the number of respondents who have more breakfast intake but have poor nutritional status is 21 people (43.8%). The number of respondents who had insufficient breakfast intake but had more nutritional status was 1 person (2.9%), and the number of respondents whose nutritional status was better with more breakfast intake was 1 person (2.1%). Respondents with academic achievement who had sufficient intake were 3 people (8.6%); the largest number in this study were respondents who had less status with good academic achievement—as many as 32 people (91.4%). Based on the results of statistical tests, there was no relationship between breakfast and the nutritional status of elementary school children. The test results showed that students' breakfast with nutritional status did not have a significant relationship with a p-value = 0.899. The test results also revealed no significant relationship between breakfast and academic achievement in elementary school. This is indicated by a p-value = 1,000.