Table 4.

Complementary feeding recommendations, in addition to the recommendation to breast-feed on demand, for each targeted age group of infants and young children across three livelihood groups in northern Kenya, November–December 2013

	6–8-month-old infants		9–11-month-old infants		12–23-month-old children
Food or food group	Servings/week	Serving size (g/d)	Servings/week	Serving size (g/d)	Servings/week	Serving size (g/d)
Settled communities (n 300)
Animal milk*	14	40	14	65	21	65
Potato or green banana†	7	30	14	50	14	50
Grains & grain products‡	–	–	7	20	7	20
Beans§	7	30	7	30	7	30
Vitamin A-fortified fats/oils||	7	5	–	–	–	–
Fruit¶	–	–	–	–	7	90
Pastoralist communities (n 283)
Animal milk*	–	–	14	60	21	70
Potato or green banana†	7	40	7–14	40	–	–
Grains & grain products‡	7	15	7	25	14	25
Beans§	–	–	–	–	7	25
Vitamin A-fortified fats/oils||	7	5	6	10	–	–
Vegetables††	7	15	–	–	14	15
Red meat‡‡	–	–	–	–	7	25
Agro-pastoralist communities (n 299)
Animal milk*	12	40	14	40	14–21	40
Potato or green banana†	7	35	5–6	50	3–4	50
Beans§	5–6	20	7	25	7	35
Vegetables††	7	15	–	–	–	–

‘–’ means that the given food group or subgroup was not among the recommendations.

^*‘Dairy products’: cow, goat, camel and/or sheep milk.

^†‘Starchy roots & other starchy plant foods’.

^‡‘Grains & grain products’ (with at least one fortified option): maize flour, flour mix, millet flour, rice, sorghum and/or spaghetti.

^§‘Legumes’: pinto, red kidney, mung and/or cranberry beans.

^||‘Vitamin A-fortified fats/oils’: vitamin A-fortified margarine.

^¶‘Fruit’: banana, orange, papaya and/or passion fruit.

^††‘Vegetables’: kale, spinach, carrot, tomato and/or onion.

^‡‡‘Red meat’: goat and/or mutton meat.