individual farms. For the current study, permission was again obtained from the respective parroquia presidents, and the same households were again selected and surveyed from March to May 2018, using the same GIS mapping previously used by a member of the research team (MJ Romero). When the potential maternal study participant from the identified household was not available, the female caretaker in the nearest household located to the right was interviewed. Highly trained agronomy and nutrition professionals were used as research assistants to collect data. They were local to the area and understood the common agricultural practices and possessed key cultural and nutrition-related knowledge. Several of the assistants spoke Kichwa, the primary Indigenous language of this area and were especially helpful in communicating with some of the olderfoods and beverages consumed the previous day. The interviewers were nutrition professionals, educated at the Universidad Técnica del Norte (Technical University of the North), which is the major comprehensive university in the Province. The nutritionists were familiar with the dietary patterns in the province and used various measuring utensils, plates, cups, and bowls.to help respondents report as accurately as possible the different types and amounts of foods and beverages consumed during the previous day. The nutritionists were instructed to probe for information regarding serving sizes, second helpings, methods of food preparation including boiling, frying, and roasting, types and amounts of oil used in cooking, snacks consumed, individual ingredients used in casserole type dishes and soups, and unsweetened and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption included aromatic water (agua aromatica, herb-infused water