Maternal autonomy but not social support is a predictor of child feeding indicators in the Northern Region, Ghana.

Background: Child malnutrition may be mediated by poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. This study sought to explore if maternal social support or autonomy was related to IYCF indicators in Northern Region, Ghana.

Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted with 395 randomly sampled mother-child pairs from 8 health facilities.

Orange-fleshed sweet potato () composite bread as a significant source of dietary vitamin A.

Refining food recipes with orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) has the potential to improve dietary intake of vitamin A. The objectives of this study were to utilize OFSP in the development of two composite bread types and to assess their contribution to dietary intake of vitamin A using the dietary reference intake of lactating mothers. Two composite OFSP-wheat flour bread recipes-vita butter bread and vita tea bread-were developed by incorporating 46% OFSP puree in existing 100% wheat flour bread recipes consumed by Ghanaians.