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    The document outlines six food groups for a Caribbean diet: 1) Cereals including bread, wheat, rice, and pasta; 2) Starchy fruits and tubers such as banana, yam, cassava, and potato; 3) Legumes including beans, peas, peanuts, and seeds; 4) Dark green leafy and yellow vegetables like callaloo, dasheen leaves, and carrots; 5) Fruits such as mango, citrus, pineapple, and papaya; 6) Meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, and oils.

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    The document outlines six food groups for a Caribbean diet: 1) Cereals including bread, wheat, rice, and pasta; 2) Starchy fruits and tubers such as banana, yam, cassava, and potato; 3) Legumes including beans, peas, peanuts, and seeds; 4) Dark green leafy and yellow vegetables like callaloo, dasheen leaves, and carrots; 5) Fruits such as mango, citrus, pineapple, and papaya; 6) Meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, and oils.

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    The document outlines six food groups for a Caribbean diet: 1) Cereals including bread, wheat, rice, and pasta; 2) Starchy fruits and tubers such as banana, yam, cassava, and potato; 3) Legumes including beans, peas, peanuts, and seeds; 4) Dark green leafy and yellow vegetables like callaloo, dasheen leaves, and carrots; 5) Fruits such as mango, citrus, pineapple, and papaya; 6) Meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, and oils.

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    Six Food Groups for use in the Caribbean

    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, black-eye 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.

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