...Micaiah Asefua Mensah; Fianyo Faustina; Doreen Burenaah; Sufyan Suara Bakuri; Deborah Arkoh Mensah Purpose This study aims to assess dietary characteristics and measures of adiposity among women within the reproductive age (15–49 years) in Dungu, Tamale, Ghana. Design/methodology/approach...

...Martin Nyaaba Adokiya; Andrews T.K. Langu; Zakari Ali Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify locally relevant factors that predict low haemoglobin (Hb < 11.0g/dl) level of pre-school children (6–23 months) in an impoverished area of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach This study...

... children (SAC) living in helminth-endemic fishing and farming communities in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach This was a cross sectional study involving 164 (9 to 12 years old) SAC from fishing (n = 84) and farming (n = 80) communities of the Kwahu Afram Plains South District of the Eastern Region...

...Damian Laryea; Esther Yeboah Akoto; Ibok Oduro; William Ofori Appaw Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify the various traditional foods available in two towns in Ghana and to assess consumer perception about these traditional foods. Traditional foods provide nutritional and health...

... Gluten Lipoprotein matrix Food products Ghana Biscuits are ready to eat and convenient cereal foods that are consumed both by adults and children. They are relatively inexpensive and are eaten mostly as snacks and at times as meals (Oluwamukomi et al., 2011). The prices of biscuits...

..., and there was no significant association between the consumption of tea/coffee and either age or marital status (Table III). Many countries in West Africa, including Ghana are not milk producing, and even when they do, it is usually insufficient and much of the milk supply is imported for use in food and beverage...

... regions spanning between the 25°N and S latitudes. In Ghana cashew production is scattered throughout the country with the major production area concentrated in the coastal savannah, transitional savannah and the Northern Savannah zones. By‐products of cashew include the apples, shell liquid from the nut...