Background From 6 months of age, children need, in addition to breast milk, a complementary food whose nutri‑
tional composition meets their needs. However, low consumption of child-specifc foods in favor of adult foods
has been documented. Thus, the lack of adaptation of children to family feeding conditions has been the source
of frequent malnutrition in some low-income countries. In Burkina Faso, little data is available on family-type food
consumption by children. The objective was to describe the socio-cultural infuences on feeding habits and food
consumption frequencies of infants aged 6–23 months in Ouagadougou.
Methods The study was conducted from March to June 2022 using a structured questionnaire. A reminder of the
previous 24 h’ meals was used to assess 618 children’s food consumption. Mother–child pairs were selected using the
simple random sampling method, and data collection was done by the interview method. Sphinx V5, IBM SPSS Statis‑
tics 20.0 and XLSTAT 2016 software were used to process data.
Results Infuences between the consumption of certain foods and the mother’s social status were observed. The
most consumed foods are simple porridges (67.48%), Tô/rice (65.70%), cookies and cakes (62.94%), juices and sweet‑
ened drinks (62.94%). Cowpeas (17.31%), improved porridge (13.92%) and eggs (6.63%) are the least consumed.
The most meals frequency was three meals daily (33.98%), and children with the minimum daily meal frequency
were 86.41%. Principal component analysis showed that the mother’s social status infuenced the consumption of
imported infant fours, fsh soups, fruits, juices and sweetened drinks, cookies and cakes, simple porridge, and tô/rice.
Concerning the consumption of local infant porridges, 55.72% of the children who consumed them appreciated posi‑
tively. However, for 57.75% of the parents, the lack of information limits the consumption rate of this type of four.
Conclusion High consumption of family-type meals was observed and was infuenced by parental social status. In
addition, the rate of acceptable meal frequencies was generally high.

Meal frequency, Breastfeeding mode, Family meals, Social status, Ouagadougou