Abstract            Volume:10  Issue-6  Year-2022         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Cooking is the process of producing safe and edible food by preparing and combining ingredients, and applying heat. Assessment of cooking practices and associated risk factors for chronic diseases in Bossa Addis Kebele, Jimma, Ethiopia. The objective of the assessment was to generate baseline information that will assist to conduct further detailed research on the household cooking practices and associated risk factors for chronic diseases. Structured questionnaire was prepared, pretested and used to collect data. The collected data was subjected to SPSS for analysis. In the present study women spend more time on cooking providing food followed by daughters for the households in the family. 74 % of the respondent households were aware and 26 % of the respondent households were not aware of health risks associated with utilization of cooking energy sources. 93.5 % of the respondents are not aware of health risks for chronic diseases associated with cooking methods and only 6.5 % of the respondents replied that they know about diseases such as gastritis can arise due to consumption of some foods such as ‘doro wot’ that is cooked for very long time with a lot of saturated cooking oils and butter. The households responded that the smoke from biomass fuel affects the lung of the food cookers as well as the surrounding family members nearby during cooking.

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