Plants, food and treatments used by BaKongo tribes in Uíge (northern Angola) to affect the quality and quantity of human breast milk

Table 1 The most frequently named plants, foods, and treatments to increase lactation or promote breast milk production

Species	Common English name	Part	NC	RFC
Manihot esculenta Crantz	Cassava	L, R	148	0.568
Arachis hypogaea L.	Peanut	S	95	0.367
Sesamum indicum L.	Sesame	S	31	0.12
Fish	Fish		18	0.069
Elaeis guineensis Jacq.	Oil palm	S	17	0.066
Saccharum officinarum L.	Sugar cane	St	12	0.046

Listed in order of the number of citations (NC) and the Relative Frequency of Citation (RFC); Part: leaves (L), root (R), seeds (S), stem (St)

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