Portion size and consistency as indicators of complementary food energy intake.

ABSTRACT: We evaluated whether novel portion size and consistency indicators can identify children with low complementary food energy intake in southern Ethiopia. We conducted 24-h dietary recalls with caregivers of 548 children aged 6-13 months; additionally, caregivers estimated their child's usual portion size using uncooked rice and selected which of five photographs of porridges of varying consistencies most closely matched the food their child usually ate. Complementary food energy and density from the 24-h recall were used as reference values. We computed correlation coefficients and areas under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUC) and conducted sensitivity and specificity analyses to classify children with low complementary food energy intake. The median complementary food energy i

SUBMITTER: Faerber EC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988842 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature