TABLE 1.
Weekly rotating menu items and weekly serving sizes for a 15-week intervention in rural Zambian children. The nutrients were provided by the 6-day rotating menua
| Menu item | Food (g) |
Calories (kcal) |
Carbohydrate (g) |
Protein (g) |
Fat (g) |
Vitamin A (RAE) |
Vitamin A (IU) |
Iron (mg) |
Zinc (mg) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porridge/groundnuts (3/wk)b | 750 | 650 | 138 | 12.6 | 7.5 | 0.18 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3 |
| Porridge/milk (3/wk) | 750 | 621 | 135 | 9.9 | 6.3 | 30 | 108 | 3 | 2.4 |
| Nshima (12/wk) | 3,600 | 3,600 | 768 | 69.6 | 38.4 | 1.5 | 30 | 24 | 18 |
| Kapenta relish (2/wk) | 100 | 294 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 30 | 22 | 316 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| White bean relish (2/wk) | 100 | 50 | 10.4 | 2 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 12.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 |
| Cabbage relish (3/wk) | 150 | 84 | 7.2 | 1.5 | 6 | 19.8 | 396 | 0.6 | 0.3 |
| Cabbage groundnut relish (1/wk) | 50 | 72 | 8.2 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 13.4 | 264 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Cowpea relish (2/wk) | 100 | 70 | 8 | 1.2 | 4 | 24 | 464 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Brown bean relish (1/wk) | 50 | 33 | 4 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 2.5 | 49 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Cabbage/groundnut relish (2/wk) | 150 | 86 | 10 | 6 | 3.4 | 16 | 312 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| Cabbage relish (1/wk) | 75 | 42 | 3.5 | 0.7 | 3 | 10 | 197 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Brown bean relish (1/wk) | 75 | 50 | 6.7 | 2 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 74 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Green bean relish (1/wk) | 75 | 43 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 17 | 343 | 0.4 | 0.12 |
| Chicken relish (1/wk) | 75 | 108 | 1 | 15 | 4.5 | 13 | 129 | 0.6 | 1.1 |
| Study menu total/wk | 6,100 | 5,800 | 1,110 | 133 | 113 | 174 | 2,700 | 36.4 | 28.7 |
RAE, Retinol Activity Equivalents
a
Vitamin A was that provided by dishes made with white maize only. Groundnuts are Zambian peanuts and kapenta are small dried fish.