台湾における食生活 (第1報)

妊娠・授乳期の食事および乳児栄養法

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A paper survey concerning food habits in Taiwan has been conducted on 1, 537 girls and boys of 22 junior high schools randomly chosen from the North, Middle, and South districts in the western part of Taiwan in October, 1967. The information about food habits during pregnancy and the lying-in period and about the nursing method of the baby was obtained through their parents.
During pregnancy 32.6% of the mothers especially favoured the sour taste and 24.6% fruits, while 32.6% tended to dislike meat and 15.4% vegetables and seaweeds. Foods recommended for pregnant women were so-called tonic foods, fruits, meat, vegetables, and beans in the order of the highest frequency. Ma you ji (Chicken fried with sesame oil and ginger, and then stewed with liquor and sugar) was served to 75.0% of the mothers as a special food for lying-in for as long as a month.
Almost all of the children (98.2%) were breast-fed and 40% of them were nursed till 12 to 18 months of age, a half of the rest being fed for a shorter period and another half longer. The powdered milk product was used mostly when the supplemental bottle was needed.
About half of the children were given soup and fruit juice by the five months of age and eggs, fish, and soybean curd by the twelveth month. One third of the monthers reported that they had fed their children with solid foods softened and chewed in their own mouth at the weaning period.