Food groups for Food groups aggregated to Examples of food items DDS create women DDS 1 Cereals and white Cereals Ugali, chapatti, porridge, bread, tubers (starchy spaghetti, scones, biscuits, rice, staples) boiled whole maize grain, doughnuts, maize-banana pancake, or any food made from finger millet, sorghum, maize or wheat White roots/tubers Irish potatoes, white sweet potatoes, white yams, coco yams, cassava or any white roots and tubers or foods made from these 2 Dark green leafy None Dark green leafy vegetables and vegetables indigenous vegetables eg amaranth, pumpkin leaves, cassava leaves, sweet potato leaves, cowpea leaves, spiderplant, ‘murere’, ‘mito’ etc 3 Eggs None Eggs from chicken, ducks, guinea fowl or any other eggs 4 Legumes/nuts/seeds None Beans, lentils, peas, cow peas, pigeon peas, bambara groundnuts, soya beans, groundnuts, green grams, chick peas, any seeds 5 Meat/fish Flesh meat Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, rabbi, wild game, chicken, duck or other birds Fish Fresh or dried fish 6 Milk/milk products None Milk, sour milk (‘maziwa lala’), yoghurt, cheese or other milk products 7 Other Other fruits Any other fruits eg watermelon, fruits/vegetables orange, tangerine, lemon, tamarind, avocado, pear, banana, wild fruits eg guavas etc Other vegetables Other vegetables eg tomato, onion, eggplant, other locally available vegetables eg okra, cabbage, green pepper, green beans, wild vegetables, mushrooms 8 Organ meat None Intestines(‘matumbo’), liver, kidney, heart or other organ meats or blood-based foods 9 Vitamin A rich Vitamin A rich vegetables and Pumpkin, carrots or sweet potatoes fruits/vegetables tubers that are orange inside, and other locally available vitamin A rich vegetables eg red sweet pepper
Food groups for DDS Food groups aggregated to create women DDS Examples of food items 1 Cereals and white tubers (starchy staples) Cereals Ugali, chapatti, porridge, bread, spaghetti, scones, biscuits, rice, boiled whole maize grain, doughnuts, maize-banana pancake, or any food made from finger millet, sorghum, maize or wheat White roots/tubers Irish potatoes, white sweet potatoes, white yams, coco yams, cassava or any white roots and tubers or foods made from these 2 Dark green leafy vegetables None Dark green leafy vegetables and indigenous vegetables eg amaranth, pumpkin leaves, cassava leaves, sweet potato leaves, cowpea leaves, spiderplant, ‘murere’, ‘mito’ etc 3 Eggs None Eggs from chicken, ducks, guinea fowl or any other eggs 4 Legumes/nuts/seeds None Beans, lentils, peas, cow peas, pigeon peas, bambara groundnuts, soya beans, groundnuts, green grams, chick peas, any seeds 5 Meat/fish Flesh meat Beef, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, rabbi, wild game, chicken, duck or other birds Fish Fresh or dried fish 6 Milk/milk products None Milk, sour milk (‘maziwa lala’), yoghurt, cheese or other milk products 7 Other fruits/vegetables Other fruits Any other fruits eg watermelon, orange, tangerine, lemon, tamarind, avocado, pear, banana, wild fruits eg guavas etc Other vegetables Other vegetables eg tomato, onion, eggplant, other locally available vegetables eg okra, cabbage, green pepper, green beans, wild vegetables, mushrooms 8 Organ meat None Intestines(‘matumbo’), liver, kidney, heart or other organ meats or blood-based foods 9 Vitamin A rich fruits/vegetables Vitamin A rich vegetables and tubers Pumpkin, carrots or sweet potatoes that are orange inside, and other locally available vitamin A rich vegetables eg red sweet pepper
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