Table 3.

Best sources of nutrients at the food subgroup level for each targeted age group of breast-fed infants and young children across three livelihood groups in northern Kenya, November–December 2013

		No. of nutrients* for which the subgroup was a good source†
		Settled communities (n 300)			Pastoralist communities (n 283)			Agro-pastoralist communities (n 299)
Food subgroup	Example of food item	6–8-month-old infants	9–11-month-old infants	12–23-month-old children	6–8-month-old infants	9–11-month-old infants	12–23-month-old children	6–8-month-old infants	9–11-month-old infants	12–23-month-old children
Breast milk	Breast milk	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Fluid or powdered milk (non-fortified)	Fresh goats’ milk	8	8	7	9	8	6	5	6	7
Starchy plant foods	Potato	7	6	3	7	7	2	4	3	1
Cooked beans, lentils and peas	Red kidney beans	0	4	5	4	5	3	4	6	8
Whole grains, unenriched/unfortified	Millet flour	1	5	0	0	0	2	5	3	5
Red meat	Goat meat	1	5	3	3	1	4	4	0	0
Enriched/fortified grains, whole or refined	Fortified maize flour	6	1	2	2	2	2	0	0	0
Vitamin A-source dark green leafy vegetables	Kale	5	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	0
Vitamin C-rich vegetables	Tomato	2	1	1	1	1	2	0	0	0
Broths	Beef broth	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	1
Margarine (fortified)	Vitamin A-fortified margarine	1	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Vitamin A-source other vegetables	Butternut squash	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other fruit	Mango	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1
Refined grain bread, unfortified	White wheat bread	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Eggs	Whole chicken egg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Vitamin C-rich fruit	Orange	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Vegetable oil (fortified)	Vitamin A-fortified oil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

^*From a maximum of eleven micronutrients assessed in Module II of Optifood.

^†A good food source is defined as a food subgroup that contributed ≥5 % of a nutrient in the diet that did not take usual observed intake into account.