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Shani Amalia The Effect of Modification of Food Appearance on Soft Food Waste inpatients of Childrens in M.Ali Hanafiah SM Hospital in 2019 v + 57 pages, 7 tables, 8 attachments ABSTRACT Receiving power and leftover food are important indicators in the administration of food as well as knowing the food intake of patients in the hospital. One of the things that affects the acceptability of food for patients in hospitals is the appearance of food. Food appearance includes five aspects which consist of food color, food consistency, food form, food portion and food presentation. The results of research conducted by Efri (2008) in RSUD Pariaman found that 46.7% of respondents had dissatisfied perceptions of the taste of soft foods, and as many as 43.33% stated they were not satisfied with the appearance of soft foods. This study aims to see differences in the percentage of food acceptance before and after modification. This study was a pre-experimental study using the design of one group pretest posttest which was carried out in the inpatient room of the M Ali Hanafiah Hospital, which began in January - March 2019. Sampling was 17 people using non-probability sampling techniques with a purposive sampling approach. The research sample used in this study was all inpatients who entered the inclusion criteria. This study uses primary and secondary data. Primary data taken is in the form of characteristics and perceptions of respondents using questionnaires and leftovers before sera after modification. While secondary data is obtained from hospital documents. Data processing techniques start from editing, coding, entry, and cleaning. Data analysis was carried out using paired t-test. From the results of the Paired T-Test obtained p-value 0.05 is 0.68. This shows a significant difference between the acceptability before and the acceptability after modifying the rice food group, animal side dishes and vegetable side dishes and there is no significant difference between the acceptability before and after modification of the vegetable food group. It is recommended to the nutrition installation of the hospital to modify vegetable and vegetable side dishes that are in accordance with the tastes of the child in order to increase the acceptability of the food. Keywords : Food Appearance, Modification, Food Acceptability Reading List : 26 (1992 - 2018)