The size of the contribution of consumption of snack food will impact nutrition
stastus for someone, especially school children which has been explained that
60% of snacks children do not meet the standards of quality and safety of food
and snacks 45% of children were found to be dangerous. This objective is to
determine the relationship patterns of child allowance to the nutritional status of
school-age children in MI AL-Ittihad Land Mirah Saronggi District of Sumenep.
This study design koresional analytic with cross sectional approach. Behavior
pocket behavior as independent variables and nutritional status as the dependent
variable. Ie the entire student population MI AL-Ittihad class I-VI as much as 149
students. Samples taken by stratified random sampling of 109 respondents, the
data collected by questionnaire, and then tested with spearmen rho and presented
in the form of a frequency distribution table. Spearmen results obtained rho
value = 0,000, = 0.005 mean value <, then Ho is rejected so no pattern of
relationship the child allowance to the nutritional status of school-age children.
The results showed that the more a person where the child can set the pattern for
their pocket or they do not buy street food indiscriminately, the school children
will receive nutritional status is good enough so that it can maintain a state of
nutritional status to normal state, and vice versa.