Photographic atlases of food portion sizes consumed in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Niamey (Niger) and calibrated household utensils

These data comprise two files corresponding to two photographic catalogs of food portion sizes and calibrated household utensils, used to collect food consumption data in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and Niamey (Niger) in 2023.

The photo atlas used in Ouagadougou contains four parts. The first part presents validated photos of portion sizes for 9 dishes/dish components, with portions for children aged 12-23 months and women aged 15-49 years. More details of the development and validation method of this first part are provided in Zoungrana et al, 2023. A second part includes fruit portions; a third part presents vegetable, meat and fish portions; finally the fourth part presents photos of household utensils most frequently used in the context, calibrated with water.

The Photo Atlas used in Niamey contains three parts. The first part contains photos of fruit portions; the second part contains photos of vegetable, meat and fish portions; and the third one contains photos of the most frequently used household utensils in the context, calibrated with water.

In both atlas, tables are providing the correspondances between photos and weights of foods or utensil water volumes (in g).