Table 3.

Children’s dietary diversity and meal frequency

Dietary diversity food groups	Percentage of children having food from the group (%)
Grain, roots, tubers	97.18
Vitamin A rich fruit and vegetable	42.08
Flesh food	38.50
Dairy products	19.96
Other fruit and vegetable	19.09
Legumes & nuts	11.93
Egg	4.34
Oil and fats	0.43
Meal frequency	Mean number of meals per day (standard deviation)
Children 6–8 months breastfeeding	3.41 (1.18)
Children 9–23 months breastfeeding	3.41 (1.18)
Children 6–23 months non breastfeeding	3.71 (1.08)
Children more than 23 months	3.71 (1.01)
Children 6–71 months	3.50 (1.15)
Children 6–71 months with minimum acceptable diet (%)	9.33