Food groups |
Food items consumed |
Coffee and tea |
Traditional mate, Yerba mate, chimarrão (a traditional South American caffeine-rich infused drink made from fresh yerba mate leaves, tea, organic mate, tea with flour, instant coffee, cappuccino, coffee, coffee with milk. |
Breads |
Bread and butter/margarine, hamburger bun, sliced loaf, french bread roll, bisnaguinha (subtly sweet small roll), whole wheat bread, bread (non-specified), toast. |
Butter or margarine |
Butter or margarine with or without salt, bottled butter, lard, pururuca (fried pork skin), olive oil. |
Cakes and cookies |
Cookies, stuffed cookies, cake, and baker’s confectionery and pastries: brevidade (popular Brazilian pastry), cuca (popular muffin cake), filhos (deep fried scones made with wheat flour and eggs), grustoli (deep fried sweet dough shaped into twisted ribbons), panetone (sweet bread loaf, honey buns, sweet bread, different flavors of pavé (layered sponge cake dessert ), sponge cake roll, rosca
doce (sweet lightly textured loaf or rolls), rosca recheada (stuffed sweet loaf or rolls), sonho (donut type dessert without a hole), pies. |
Packaged salty snacks |
Baked crackers, crackers, snack chips, popcorn. |
Corn-based dishes |
Angú (cornmeal puree), cremogema (instant cornstarch porridge), curau (traditional Brazilian sweet custard-like dessert), cuscuz (steamed corn meal dish made with flaked corn flour), corn flour, cornmeal porridge, pamonha (paste made with sweet corn, boiled wrapped in corn husks), cornmeal mush, cornstarch. |
Milk |
Whole cow’s milk, fresh cow’s milk, goat’s milk, whole milk powder, skim milk powder, milk powder, fermented milk, flavored milk, milk with chocolate milk powder mix, skim cow’s milk, low-fat cow’s milk, pasteurized milk (non-specified). |
Eggs |
Chicken egg, quail egg, omelet. |
Roots and tubers |
Cassava, sweet potato, Russet potato, beiju (pacake made with tapioca), cassava bun, cará (a tuber from the Yam Family), farinha d’água (a flour made with peeled cassava roots soaked in water for a few days), copioba flour (a sand-like crunch cassava flour), cassava flour, yam, corn, tapioca de goma (gum starch extracted from cassava root). |
Fruit juice |
Pineapple juice, acerola juice, cupuaçu juice, guava juice, orange juice, banana orange juice, papaya juice, mango juice, passion fruit juice, strawberry juice, peach juice, sugarcane juice, organic juice. |
Processed meats |
Apresuntado (type of ham with less meat and more fat), blanquet de perú (turkey sausage),sun-dried meat, beef jerky, chouriço (a type of pork sausage), sausage, mortadella, canned beef, beef paté, sliced turkey breast, ham, salami, frankfurter, tender (a type of smoked ham). |
Cheese |
Queijo prato (a Brazilian soft yellow cheese), colonial cheese, mozzarella, queijo do reino (a semi-hard matured cheese with a pink rind), queijo minas (a type of cheese traditionally produced in the Brazilian state ofMinas Gerais), rennet cheese, canastra Cheese (cheese made in the state of Minas Gerais in the Serra da Canastra region), ricotta (an Italian whey cheese), pasteurized cheese, requeijão (a loose, ricotta-like cheese), cheese (non-specified). |
Fruits |
Avocado, pineapple, açaí, acerola, plum, banana (lady’s finger banana, Burro or Chunky banana, yellow Cavendish or Dwarf Cavendish banana, plaintain or cooking banana, etc.), cajá-manga cajarana, cashew, persimmon, cherry, fruit (non-specified), guava, soursop, ingá, jabuticaba, jackfruit, orange, lemon and lime, apple, papaya, mango, mangaba, watermelon, cantaloupe or honey dew, tangerine, strawberry, pear, peach, sugar apple, fruit salad, tamarind, tanja, grape, raisin. |
Deep fried or baked snacks |
Coxinha (popular deep fried food in Brazil, made with shredded chicken meat, covered in dough) empada (a small pot pie with a top crust), enroladinho (deep fried stuffed roll), esfirra (sfiha - meat pie [open-face or not], minipastel and pastel (traditional deep fried Brazilian pastry filled with various sweet or savory ingredients), rizole (deep fried small baked or deep fried pastry filled with various ingredients), fried kibe and other typical deep fried or baked snacks. |
Food groups |
Food items consumed |
Sweets and chocolates |
Candies, chocolate bar, wrapped chocolate candy, canudinho recheado (cone shaped fried pastry filled with sweet ingredients), bubble gum, cocada (coconut candy or confectionery), egg-based sweets or confectionery), peanut candy, candied fruit, fruit preserves, freeze pop, goiabada (guava paste), maria-mole (marshmallow like dessert), mariola (candy made with banana and dried cashew or guava), paçoca (candy made with ground peanuts, sugar and salt), hard candy, peanut brittle, popsicle, lollipop. |
Sandwiches |
Bauru (melted cheese, meat, tomato), hot dog, croissant, misto-quente ou frio (hot or cold ham and cheese sandwich) mortadella sandwich, ham sandwich, queijo minas sandwich, queijo prato sandwich, salami sandwich, vegetarian sandwich. |
Milk/soy/yogurt-based beverages |
Yogurt, flavored soymilk, milk shake, fresh fruit dairy beverage. |
Sugar-added beverages |
Soft drinks, guaraná syrup, fruit nectar or fruit juice, fruit juice powder mix. |