Preliminary Ethnographic Analysis of Infant Complementary Foods in a Peruvian Quechua Community.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q4 NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Ecology of Food and Nutrition Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1080/03670244.2025.2462934

Amanda Veile, Rocio Chávez Cabello, Yu Chung, Sophie Mbongo, Violeta Rojas Bravos

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Abstract

This study examines infant feeding beliefs and practices in a rural Peruvian Quechua community. The aim was to assess which infant foods are considered culturally meaningful, and if concordance exists between beliefs and practices. Mothers were asked to free-list their child's "actual" first foods (n = 85), then to free-list "ideal" infant foods (n = 87). Food lists were analyzed for cultural salience. Mothers listed 43 foods; four (potato, mazamorra, egg, and liver) were culturally salient on both lists. Some discordance was found between beliefs and practices. Culturally salient "ideal" foods were animal-source and protein-iron rich, whereas salient "actual" foods were plant-source and carbohydrate-based.

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Ecology of Food and Nutrition 医学-营养学

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期刊介绍： Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of food and nutrition in the broadest sense. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on all aspects of food and nutrition -- ecological, biological, and cultural. Ecology of Food and Nutrition strives to become a forum for disseminating scholarly information on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of the study of food and nutrition. It emphasizes foods and food systems not only in terms of their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs and health, but also to promote and contest social and cultural identity. The content scope is thus wide -- articles may focus on the relationship between food and nutrition, food taboos and preferences, ecology and political economy of food, the evolution of human nutrition, changes in food habits, food technology and marketing, food and identity, and food sustainability. Additionally, articles focusing on the application of theories and methods to address contemporary food and nutrition problems are encouraged. Questions of the relationship between food/nutrition and culture are as germane to the journal as analyses of the interactions among nutrition and environment, infection and human health.