Skip to main content

Table 4 Food Categories Used for Dietary Diversity Score

From: Dietary intake and cardiometabolic risk factors among Venezuelan adults: a nationally representative analysis

Food Category for MDD-W

Food Group in EVESCAM DDS

Grains, white roots and tubes, plantains

White bread, pasta, cereal, oats, rice, potato, plantain, yucca

Pulses

Legumes

Nuts & Seeds

Nuts

Dairy products

Milk, cheese

Animal-based foods

Fish, poultry, red meat, hamburgers

Eggs

Eggs

Other Fruits

Fruit

Vitamin-A rich fruits

Other Vegetables

Vegetables

Leafy green vegetables