Table 4.
Food intake per consumption unit according to Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) category
| HFIAS category* | Food intake per consumption unit (g/CU/day)† | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cereals | Pulses | Fruits | Vegetables | Milk | Meat | Oil‡ | Sugar | |
| Food-secure | 297.2±141.1 | 40.3±39.7 | 64.7±49.7 | 198.2±122.3 | 281.8±136.2 | 42.3±78.5 | 45.3±27.4 | 47.3±31.3 |
| Mildly food-insecure | 282.5±117.5 | 41.0±37.4 | 66.4±64.3 | 224.3±145.4 | 284.4±149.2 | 24.2±61.7 | 37.0±21.5 | 40.3±35.3 |
| Moderately food-insecure | 281.5±124.1 | 40.4±44.5 | 59.6±66.9 | 183.6±126.8 | 238.2±119.7 | 15.4±18.9 | 34.2±16.8 | 40.2±49.5 |
| Severely food-insecure | 313.4±196.7 | 39.3±29.4 | 51.3±65.4 | 185.4±127.5 | 237.1±146.5 | 14.8±20.3 | 33.0±20.9 | 43.3±26.8 |
*One-way ANOVA used in detecting any statistically significant difference in terms of consumption of various food-groups between the HFIAS categories;
†Data presented as mean±SD;
‡Statistically significant differences observed between the four groups under HFIAS categories (p=0.03)