Appendix Table 1.

Composition of food groups

	Meats	Poultry	Fish	Vegetables	Fruits
Tea
Large fish (freshwater)			✓
Poultry (fowl)		✓
Eggs (hen eggs)
Milk
Puffed rice
Wheat bread (brown)
Beef or mutton	✓
Bitter gourd*				✓
Banana					✓
Jack fruit					✓
Watermelon					✓
Mango					✓
Steamed rice
Guava					✓
Potato				✓
Small fish (freshwater)			✓
Tomato				✓
Bottle gourd*				✓
Beans (scarlet runner)				✓
Eggplant				✓
Parwar or patol*				✓
Green papaya				✓
Cabbage				✓
Okra				✓
Yam				✓
Spinach				✓
Cauliflower				✓
Sweet potato				✓
Dried fish			✓
Water rice
Ridge gourd or jhinga*				✓
Snake gourd or chachinga*				✓
Ghosala or dhundal*				✓
Radish				✓
Spinach stalks				✓
Pumpkin				✓
Salted fish			✓

^*A kind of squash.