2020 Articles

The utilisation of wild foods in Mediterranean Tunisia: commentary on the identification and frequency of consumption of wild edible plants over a year in central Tunisia: a mixed-methods approach (Dop et al., n.d.)

Fanzo, Jessica C.

The study in this issue by Dop et al.(Reference Dop, Kefi and Karous11) sought to identify the frequency of consumption of ‘wild’ edible plants consumed by women in rural Tunisia. They also studied the availability of these foods by seasons, within their immediate environment and in markets, and characterised the perceptions of their use and mainstay within diets. They utilised qualitative methods including interviews and focus groups, used ethnobotanical tools to collect and identify wild plant species, performed market surveys to assess availability and access and carried out FFQs. FFQs were used to capture longer recalls of diets retrospectively and allowed for the inclusion of these often forgotten or neglected wild foods.