Table 3.
Top five food item contributors from the diet history questionnaire to nutrient values by region
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Trivandrum
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Mumbai
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| Nutrients | Food | % | Food | % | Food | % |
| Total energy | Roti | 28·5 | Rice, white milled | 35·3 | Roti | 13·7 |
| Potato curry | 4·7 | Fresh-fish curry | 6·8 | Rice, white milled | 8·6 | |
| Rice, basmati | 4·4 | Puttu | 5·0 | Oil, groundnut | 4·4 | |
| Ghee | 4·1 | Rice, brown | 4·7 | Green gram | 4·3 | |
| Curd | 2·6 | Potato curry | 3·2 | Sugar | 3·3 | |
| Protein | Roti | 20·2 | Fresh-fish curry | 29·3 | Fresh-fish curry | 9·7 |
| Curd | 7·3 | Rice, white milled | 19·6 | Roti | 8·6 | |
| Double-toned milk | 5·9 | Fresh-fish fry | 4·3 | Green gram | 6·3 | |
| Potato curry | 5·8 | Chicken curry | 3·6 | Rice, white milled | 5·2 | |
| Mutton curry | 3·1 | Dosa | 3·1 | Dahl (green/mung) | 5·1 | |
| Total fat | Roti | 23·2 | Potato curry | 9·4 | Roti | 11·6 |
| Ghee | 10·0 | Coconut chutney | 9·4 | Oil, groundnut | 11·2 | |
| Potato curry | 7·8 | Fresh-fish curry | 8·6 | Potato curry | 4·4 | |
| Matar paneer | 4·3 | Puttu | 6·0 | Eggplant bhaji | 3·6 | |
| Aloo methi | 2·8 | Avial | 4·8 | Oil, sunflower | 3·5 | |
| Carbohydrate | Roti | 35·7 | Rice, white milled | 50·5 | Roti | 17·4 |
| Rice, basmati | 7·9 | Rice, brown | 6·4 | Rice, white milled | 15·8 | |
| Sugar | 4·1 | Puttu | 5·2 | Green gram | 7·2 | |
| Rice, white milled | 3·4 | Sugar | 3·4 | Sugar | 7·2 | |
| Curd | 2·5 | Banana | 3·1 | Dahl, red gram | 2·9 | |
| Cholesterol | Ghee | 22·9 | Fresh-fish fry | 19·2 | Egg scrambled/bhurji | 17·2 |
| Egg (boiled) | 9·9 | Egg curry | 18·0 | Egg (omelette) | 11·5 | |
| Egg (omelette) | 9·3 | Mother dairy token milk | 11·2 | Egg (boiled) | 9·8 | |
| Palak paneer | 6·2 | Milk, cow | 7·3 | Mutton curry | 8·8 | |
| Mutton curry | 5·5 | Tea | 6·4 | Egg curry | 7·5 | |
| Ca | Curd | 19·3 | Mother dairy token milk | 11·2 | Double-toned milk | 14·9 |
| Double-toned milk | 16·0 | Rice, white milled | 10·3 | Palak bhaji | 8·8 | |
| Roti | 6·6 | Tea | 9·1 | Tea | 6·9 | |
| Milk, buffalo | 5·1 | Fresh-fish curry | 8·8 | Milk, cow | 6·9 | |
| Full-cream milk | 3·8 | Milk, cow | 7·3 | Curd | 4·5 | |
| Fe | Roti | 22·2 | Rice, white milled | 36·2 | Rice, white milled | 8·9 |
| Aloo methi | 5·8 | Fresh-fish curry | 18·1 | Roti | 8·4 | |
| Rice, basmati | 5·7 | Puttu | 4·3 | Green gram | 8·2 | |
| Potato curry | 4·0 | Dosa | 3·2 | Fresh-fish curry | 5·5 | |
| Chole | 3·3 | Kadala | 2·6 | Palak bhaji | 4·7 | |
| Vitamin A (retinol equivalents) | Palak bhaji | 23·9 | Fresh-fish curry | 18·1 | Palak bhaji | 42·6 |
| Ghee | 10·0 | Cheera thoran | 15·0 | Dudhi bhopla bhaji | 13·5 | |
| Double-toned milk | 7·8 | Carrot thoran | 14·0 | Liver | 4·6 | |
| Palak paneer | 6·5 | Beef curry | 6·3 | Carrot | 4·3 | |
| Aloo methi | 6·2 | Chicken curry | 5·5 | Double-toned milk | 4·3 | |
| Vitamin B1 | Rice, basmati | 11·4 | Rice, white milled | 55·4 | Rice, white milled | 14·4 |
| Rice, white milled | 4·8 | Fresh-fish curry | 6·7 | Green gram | 13·1 | |
| Green gram | 4·4 | Rice, brown | 5·4 | Fried chana | 6·5 | |
| Curd | 3·9 | Kanji rice | 2·7 | Dahl, red gram | 5·2 | |
| Aloo ghobi | 3·6 | Idli | 2·5 | Vatana bhaji | 3·5 | |
| Vitamin B2 | Roti | 34·0 | Fresh-fish curry | 16·5 | Roti | 19·0 |
| Double-toned milk | 10·7 | Tea | 10·2 | Double-toned milk | 10·1 | |
| Curd | 10·0 | Mother dairy token milk | 8·0 | Green gram | 7·8 | |
| Tea | 3·0 | Puttu | 7·1 | Tea | 7·7 | |
| Full-cream milk | 2·6 | Milk, cow | 5·2 | Milk, cow | 4·9 | |