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The 6 caribbean food groups

The document discusses the six Caribbean food groups and how eating foods from each group provides nutrients. The six food groups are: 1) cereals, 2) starchy fruits, roots, and tubers, 3) legumes, 4) dark green leafy and yellow vegetables, 5) other vegetables, 6) fruits, 7) meat and alternatives, and 8) fats and oils. It also mentions the "Multimix Principle" which is a method of combining foods from the different groups to ensure meals are nutritious.

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HOW DO YOU GET THESE NUTRIENTS ● BY EATING FOODS FROM THE SIX CARIBBEAN FOOD GROUPS
Cereals: Bread (from whole grain or enriched flour), wheat flour, corn (maize), corn­ meal, dried cereals, macaroni, spaghetti, rice, cereal porridges. Starchy fruits, roots, tubers/ground provisions: Banana, plantain, breadfruit, yam, potato, dasheen, coco/ eddoe, cassava.
Kidney beans, gungo/pigeon peas, black­eye peas, cow peas, other dried peas and beans, peanuts, cashew nuts, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds.
Dark green leafy and yellow vegetables: Callaloo/spinach, dasheen leaves, cabbage bush, pak choy, string beans, pumpkin, carrot. Other vegetables: Squash, cho-cho, (christophene, chayote), cucumber, tomato, garden egg/aubergine.
Mango, guava, citrus (orange, grapefruit, limes, tangerine), pineapple, West Indian cherry, pawpaw/papaya, golden apple/Jew/June plum, sugar apple/sweet sop.
Meat, poultry, fish (fresh, canned, pickled, dried), milk, cheese, yoghurt, egg, liver, heart, kidney, tripe (offal), trotters, feet, tail, head.
Cooking and salad oils, butter, margarine, shortening, ghee, coconut cream/milk, meat fat, nuts, avocado pear, Jamaican ackee.
HEALTHY EATING GETTING “THE RIGHT MIX” BY USING THE “MULTIMIX PRINCIPLE”  A method of combining foods to ensure that meals are nutritious
HEALTHY EATING GETTING “THE RIGHT MIX” BY USING THE “MULTIMIX PRINCIPLE”  A method of combining foods to ensure that meals are nutritious