Food taboos and their nutritional implications on developing nations like Nigeria –  a review

Onuorah, C.E.; Ayo, J. A.

doi:10.1108/00346650310499767

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“…The order of importance of the FCM was broadly in line with other studies that used the original FCQ (e.g., Reference [45,46]), with the exception that the Nigerian consumer considered the motive Familiar as more important than the European consumer (M = 5.31 versus M = 2.85) [45]. Food consumption practices in Nigeria are found to be influenced by many social-cultural factors, including cultural traditions, food beliefs or religious circumstances [47]. Future interventions and product design should consider Health and other motives important to consumers.…”

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Drivers of Vegetable Consumption in Urban Nigeria: Food Choice Motives, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy

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Objective: This study aimed to provide insights into vegetable consumption behavior of urban Nigerian consumers across different Socio-Economic Classes (SEC), their main food choice motives, and the associations of these motives and other drivers with vegetable consumption. Methods: An online survey was conducted in which 1220 women from Lagos (N = 808) and Ibadan (N = 412) metropolis from different SEC participated. Results: On average, respondents reported to consume 2.6 portions of vegetables per day. Most vegetables were bought at open and traditional markets, were bought fresh rather than processed, and were consumed cooked. Respondents from the second richest and upper middle SEC consumed most vegetables () and higher SEC consumed a larger variety of vegetables compared to those from lower classes. Respondents who reported to have a higher knowledge of vegetable consumption, had a higher belief in one’s own ability to prepare vegetables (self-efficacy), and those that valued the food motive Mood and Health more, reported a higher vegetable intake. Conclusions: Vegetable consumption in the studied cities in Nigeria was below recommendations. Increasing knowledge and self-efficacy might be a way to increase consumption, especially in combination with interventions in the food environment and product design focused on the motives Health and Mood, and considering the importance of differences between SEC.

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Drivers of Vegetable Consumption in Urban Nigeria: Food Choice Motives, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy

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“…Tellingly, unhealthy cultural beliefs and practices cum food taboos have been reported to have negative impact on the health of Nigerian communities. Most tabooed food items, including those rich in proteins, calories, vitamins and minerals, work against the most vulnerable members of the society, particularly pregnant women and children [29][30][31]. Similarly, food allergy, meal skipping, junk food eating, dieting particularly by females because of weight concerns, poor quality and unsatisfactory taste of family meals as well as alluring mass media advertisement, have contributed their bit to this disturbing undernutrition phenomenon [3-4, 8-11, 13-16, 32].…”

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Assessment of Dietary Habits and Nutritional Status of Adolescents in a Resource – Poor Environment in Nigeria

Iyalomhe¹,

Iyalomhe²,

Nwadike³

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Information is scarce about dietary habits and nutritional status in adolescents in Ekpoma, Nigeria. This is partly because of this age group's reputation for capriciousness and also because health services/research in developing countries tend to focus more on preschool children and pregnant women. This study aimed to optimize the health needs of Nigerian adolescents by determining the dietary habits and the nutritional status of adolescents using anthropometry. The cross-sectional descriptive study engaged 400 adolescents aged 10-19 years in four secondary schools in Ekpoma using a semi-structured questionnaire for data collection. Height (m 2) and weight (kg) were measured and body mass index (BMI) was computed to assess underweight, normal weight, overweight or obesity. SPSS was used to analyse data. Important factors affecting dietary habits include parental influence (87%), taste of food (71%), mass media reports (61%) and culture (55%). Percentages of underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese adolescents were 24%, 72%, 3% and 1%, respectively. There was significant association between BMI and monthly household income, p<0.002. There were no significant gender differences. In contrast to the rising prevalence of obesity worldwide, this study has demonstrated that under-nutrition is a challenge in this environment. Intensified nutritional education, provision of adequate healthy diets and motivational strategies are imperatives to prevent malnutrition and its related health consequences in this adolescent population-tomorrow's adults.

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“…It was posited by Sheikh and Thomas (1994) that the religious groups to which people belong will determine food practices according to their religion. Differences in religious affiliations tend to influence the way people live, the choices they make, what they eat and whom they associate with; the beliefs play significant parts in sculpting social behavior (Kim et al, 2004) and are inbuilt to dictate what a person can eat and what he cannot (Onuorah et al, 2003). The consumption of meat and meat products in Ethiopia has very tidy association with religious beliefs, and are influenced by religions.…”

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Meat Consumption Culture in Ethiopia

Seleshe¹,

Jo²,

Lee³

2014

Korean Journal for Food Science of Animal Resources

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The consumption of animal flesh food in Ethiopia has associated with cultural practices. Meat plays pivotal and vital parts in special occasions and its cultural symbolic weight is markedly greater than that accorded to most other food. Processing and cooking of poultry is a gender based duty and has socio-cultural roles. Ethiopians are dependent on limited types of animals for meats due to the taboo associated culturally. Moreover, the consumption of meat and meat products has a very tidy association with religious beliefs, and are influenced by religions. The main religions of Ethiopia have their own peculiar doctrines of setting the feeding habits and customs of their followers. They influence meat products consumption through dictating the source animals that should be used or not be used for food, and scheduling the days of the years in periodical permeation and restriction of consumptions which in turn influences the pattern of meat consumption in the country. In Ethiopia, a cow or an ox is commonly butchered for the sole purpose of selling within the community. In special occasions, people have a cultural ceremony of slaughtering cow or ox and sharing among the group, called Kircha, which is a very common option of the people in rural area where access of meat is challenging frequently.

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Food taboos and their nutritional implications on developing nations like Nigeria – a review

Cited by 26 publications

References 5 publications

Drivers of Vegetable Consumption in Urban Nigeria: Food Choice Motives, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy

Drivers of Vegetable Consumption in Urban Nigeria: Food Choice Motives, Knowledge, and Self-Efficacy

Assessment of Dietary Habits and Nutritional Status of Adolescents in a Resource – Poor Environment in Nigeria

Meat Consumption Culture in Ethiopia

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