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A food photograph series for identifying portion sizes of culturally specific dishes in rural areas with high incidence of oesophageal cancer

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posted on 2024-11-14, 22:42 authored by Martani Lombard, Nelia Steyn, Hester-Mari Burger, Karen CharltonKaren Charlton, Marjanne Senekal
Rural areas of the Eastern Cape (EC) Province, South Africa have a high incidence of squamous cell oesophageal cancer (OC) and exposure to mycotoxin fumonisin has been associated with increased OC risk. However, to assess exposure to fumonisin in Xhosas—having maize as a staple food—it is necessary to determine the amount of maize consumed per day. A maize-specific food frequency questionnaire (M-FFQ) has recently been developed. This study developed a food photograph (FP) series to improve portion size estimation of maize dishes. Two sets of photographs were developed to be used alongside the validated M-FFQ. The photographs were designed to assist quantification of intakes (portion size photographs) and to facilitate estimation of maize amounts in various combined dishes (ratio photographs) using data from 24 h recalls (n = 159), dishing-up sessions (n = 35), focus group discussions (FGD) (n = 56) and published literature. Five villages in two rural isiXhosa-speaking areas of the EC Province, known to have a high incidence of OC, were randomly selected. Women between the ages of 18–55 years were recruited by snowball sampling and invited to participate. The FP series comprised three portion size photographs (S, M, L) of 21 maize dishes and three ratio photographs of nine combined maize-based dishes. A culturally specific FP series was designed to improve portion size estimation when reporting dietary intake using a newly developed M-FFQ.

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Lombard, M., Steyn, N., Burger, H., Charlton, K. & Senekal, M. 2013, 'A food photograph series for identifying portion sizes of culturally specific dishes in rural areas with high incidence of oesophageal cancer', Nutrients, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 3118-3130.

Journal title

Nutrients

Volume

5

Issue

8

Pagination

3118-3130

Language

English

RIS ID

80994

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