Table 5.

Food Groups and Item used for HFCS calculations

Food group	Food items	Weight
Main staples (MS)	Maize, Sorghum, Cassava, Rice, Potato, Sweet Potato, Bread, noodles, yam	2
Pulses (P)	Beans, Cowpeas, Mung bean, Groundnuts, Pigeon peas, soybean, Bambara Nuts	3
Vegetables (V)	Green leafy veg, Tomato, okra	1
Fruit (F)	Any fruit consumed during the seven day period	1
Meat/Fish (MF)	Beef, poultry, pork and fish	4
Dairy (D)	Milk, yogurt and other diary	4
Sugar/honey (SH)	Sugar and sugar products, honey	0.5
Fats (Fa)	Oils, fats and butter	0.5