List of dishes and ingredients from expert elicitation workshop conducted in eastern India (2017)

Food experts (i.e., nutritionists, food scientists, restaurant holders, and home scientists) identified a maximum of 20 most important dishes per occasion--1) breakfast, 2) morning snacks, 3) lunch, 4) afternoon snacks, and 5) dinner, 6) special occasion) in West Bengal and Odisha, India. The target population is households in the low and middle-income groups in urban and rural West Bengal and Odisha. The identified dishes were in terms of frequency of consumption. A dish is any food prepared in a specific way composed of component ingredients. Dishes contained a single component (e.g., rice) or multiple components. Desserts were considered as dishes. Beverages were not included.