Step 1: preparation of the ‘
We began with a food list from an unpublished study of 102 food items prepared from 24 h dietary recalls of 111 pregnant women from the Nagpur and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra in India. This list was updated with twenty-four new food items that consisted of common foods, foods consumed during pregnancy, festival foods, special occasion foods, and seasonal foods by interviewing ten local market vendors in all three seasons (summer, rainy, and winter) and also interviewing thirteen women between 18 and 45 years of age. We labelled this updated food list of 126 (i.e. 102 + 24) food items as Step-4: Cooked food recipe data collection using ACEC App.