Dear INFOODS community,
My colleagues are conducting a Cost of the Diet analysis in Nigeria for which they carried
out a survey to collect prices of all foods available in markets in the South of the country. We have come across some local / traditional foods that we are unable
to find in major food composition tables including the West African FCT 2019.
These foods are listed in the table at the end of this email with their local
names, English names and likely scientific names (based on a google search).
For our analysis we (ideally) need the following information:
Has anyone come across these foods in their research and could (1) point us towards studies carried out on nutrient composition of these foods? (2) identify a food with a similar composition?
|
Name Local / English |
(Likely) scientific name |
|
|
Oha leaf / African rosewood leaf |
Pterocarpus mildraedii |
|
|
Nturukpa |
Pterocarpus santalinoides |
|
|
Utazi Leaf / Bushbuck leaf |
Gongronema latifolium |
|
|
Soko / Lagos Spinach |
Celosia argentia |
|
|
Africa pear |
Dacryodes edulis |
Your help would be most appreciated!
Best wishes,
Frances Knight
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