Table 3.
Wild foods commonly consumed by children during a one week period during the food secure (FS) and food insecure (FI) in the four study villages
| Wild food type | Species | Makombe | Kasonga | Mtuluma | Mpheta | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FS | FI | FS | FI | FS | FI | FS | FI | ||
| Vegetables & mushrooms | Aloe meynharthii | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Alternanthera pungens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Amaranthus spinosus & hybridus | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | |
| Bidens pilosa | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Cleome gynandra | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cleome monophylla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cochorus trilocularis | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
| Galinsonga parviflora | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Mushrooms | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Fruits | Adansonia digitata | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Anclylobathrys amoena | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Annona senegalensis | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Flacourtia indica | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Landolphia buchananii | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sclerocarya birrea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Uapaca kirkiana | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vangueria infausta | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Vitex domiana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Ziziphus mauritania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| t = 0.29; p = 0.77 |
t = 0.14 p = 0.89 |
t = 0.69 p = 0.49 |
t = 3.17 p = 0.003 |
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