This work seeks to analyze and explore the historical configuration of vegetable mixtures and the birth of Bienestarina framed in the conception of the problem of child malnutrition, nutritional intervention strategies and the implementation of nutritional and food policies between the end of the decade. 1950 and early 1970s. To achieve this analysis, a qualitative methodology is followed with a historical approach in which it is exposed how the mentioned foods appear for the first time in the second wave of nutritional strategies which were the result of transformations of global and local contexts, the latter approached from power, the discourse of development and Global Health. The content of this research is divided into two chapters, the first one reveals actors and contexts that will determine the emergence of health strategies based on the practice of nutrition, which results in the creation of vegetable mixtures. In the second, from an institutional perspective, economic and political phenomena in Colombia are exposed that, in line with the first chapter, allow us to establish the arrival of these mixtures and the birth of Bienestarina as a technical-political tool in the midst of global food tensions.
