Table 1.

Food groups in the Indian Food Composition Table.

Code	Food groups	No. of food entries
A	Cereals and millets	24
B	Grain legumes	25
C	Green leafy vegetables	34
D	Other vegetables	78
E	Fruits	68
F	Roots and tubers	19
G	Condiments and spices	33
H	Nuts and oil seeds	21
I	Sugars	2
J	Mushrooms	4
K	Miscellaneous foods	2
L	Milk and milk products	4
M	Egg and egg products	15
N	Poultry	19
O	Animal meat	63
P	Marine fish	92
Q	Marine shellfish	8
R	Marine mollusks	7
S	Fresh water fish and shellfish	10
T	Edible oils and fats	9