12th IFDC Special Issue – Prioritizing commonly consumed traditional dishes of southeast Nigeria for comprehensive analyses and inclusion in food composition database

•Commonly consumed foods in southeast Nigeria were documented.•Cassava, rice and yam-based dishes were the documented commonly consumed foods.•71 commonly consumed dishes were documented from cassava, rice and yam.•The 71 dishes contributed up to ≥ 70% to the total intake of some nutrients.•These di...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of food composition and analysis 2019-12, Vol.84, p.103288, Article 103288
Hauptverfasser: Davidson, Gloria Ifeoma, Ene-Obong, Henrietta Nkechi
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Zusammenfassung:•Commonly consumed foods in southeast Nigeria were documented.•Cassava, rice and yam-based dishes were the documented commonly consumed foods.•71 commonly consumed dishes were documented from cassava, rice and yam.•The 71 dishes contributed up to ≥ 70% to the total intake of some nutrients.•These dishes should be prioritized for comprehensive chemical analysis for inclusion in FCDB. Documentation of commonly consumed dishes and their contribution to the energy and nutrient intake of adults in southeast Nigeria were the aims of the study. Twenty communities were selected from the study area using a stratified sampling technique. Twenty-four-hour dietary recall, focus group discussion (FGD) and a 3-day weighed food intake conducted in each of the selected communities were used to collect the data, which were analyzed using percentages, means and standard deviations. Student’s t-test was used to compare means across sex and locations (urban/rural). Cassava, rice and yam-based dishes were the most commonly consumed: frequencies of consumption were 90.2 and 93.4% for cassava, 77.4 and 54.0% for rice, 54.4 and 76.6% for yam-based dishes in urban and rural communities respectively. Seventy-one recipes of commonly consumed cassava, rice and yam-based dishes were documented. Commonly consumed dishes contributed > 70% of the energy and nutrient (protein, calcium, iron, zinc, vitamin A (RE), thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and vitamin C) intake of adults in southeast Nigeria though there were few exceptions. The high contribution of the commonly consumed dishes to the total energy and nutrient intake of adults in southeast Nigeria reveals that prioritizing them for comprehensive chemical analysis and use in the development of a country-specific food composition database would be a way forward.
ISSN:0889-1575
1096-0481
DOI:10.1016/j.jfca.2019.103288