Public awareness and perception of Ghana’s restrictive policy on fatty meat, as well as preference and consumption of meat products among Ghanaian adults living in the Kumasi Metropolis

Table 5 Frequency of consumption of local versus imported meat and meat products

Food item	More than once a month	Once a month	Occasional & never
Imported beef	18.6	7.2	77
Local beef	50	11.9	37.7
Imported chicken	50	13.5	38.4
Local chicken	27.5	14.1	57.9
Imported turkey tail	2.4	1.3	96.4
Local turkey tail	2.2	1.3	96.6
Imported pork	16.0	5	79
Local pork	14.4	6.1	79.6
Imported mutton	7.4	4.5	88.1
Local mutton	18.3	8	73.7
Imported goat meat	10.1	7.2	83.1
Local goat meat	41.5	13.8	54.6
Imported processed meat	27.3	12.2	60.5
Local processed meat	19.9	7.4	75.9

The FFQ used had 5 categories of frequencies. In the analysis, weekly and fortnightly were combined into one category labelled more than once a month, and occasionally and never also combined into one category

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