“…Sampling: It is a cross-sectional study with multi-stage random sampling procedures applied to collect the food samples. A total of 391 commonly consumed breakfast foods such as Idly sambar (20), MLA pesarattu (18), Onion dosa (19), Open dosa (26), Paneer dosa (14), Pesarattu (12), Rava paneer dosa (16), Set dosa (18), Vegetable dosa (21), Vada sambar (20), Onion dosa (18), Plain dosa (25), MLA dosa (8), Bisi bele bhath (7), Open vegetable dosa ( 14), Tomato bhath ( 14), Lemon rice (18), Chapathi ( 16), Tomato rice (15), Vegetable biryani (18), Curd rice (16), Parota (21) and Mysore bonda (17). All the food items of each breakfast foods were made into a fine paste using a mixer grinder, and the homogenate was dried in an oven at 45 0 C for 12 hrs.…”