Changing food consumption of Japanese immigrants in the lowland of Bolivia

Dietary records (a three‐day period in July and August, 1975) of 34 households of Japanese immigrants in the lowland of Bolivia were analyzed for the amounts and types of food consumed. The objective of the study was to determine the food habits of immigrants during the various stages of their resettlement and socio‐economic development. The results were as follows: The number of foodstuffs exceeded 100, among which rice was staple through all the households. Food‐stuffs or foodstuff‐groups of high communality in consumption next to rice were vegetables, oils wheat, eggs and sugar. Use of wild river fish and cultivation of vegetables, novel in Bolivia but familiar in Japan, were widely recognized. Differences due to the diversified subsistence activities were mainly observed in consumption of animal food such as beef, chicken and fish. Non‐agriculturists more frequently consumed wheat, non‐alcoholic beverages, and jam and honey, and less frequently rice, vegetables, eggs and vinegar. Except for soybean products, milk, dairy products, and seaweeds, the consumption pattern of food‐stuff by colonists was similar to that recorded by the Japanese National Nutrition Survey in 1975, but not that in 1960

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