Prevalence of food taboo during pregnancy in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Food taboo is one of harmful cultural practices that affect women and fetal health pregnancy 1.It is the restriction of specific food types as a result of cultural, religious norms or traditional belief which is mainly happen during pregnancy 2.• WHO report of 2018 indicated, for many pregnant women food taboo was the main causes of nutritional deficiencies 3 .Evidence show that food taboos linked with African cultures that nutritional valuable foods; chief sources of Carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins prohibited during pregnancy 4-6 .• In Ethiopia there is scarce pooled data regarding food taboos during pregnancy.Thus, the focus of this study is to fill the gap.

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