This study examined the consumption of proteinous food in Remo division of Ogun State, Nigeria.
Primary data were obtained in a cross-section survey of 120 randomly selected households drawn by a
combination of a multi-stage random sampling and stratified random sampling techniques. Descriptive
statistics and ordinary least square (OLS) regression techniques were employed for data analysis. The
descriptive statistics of the socio-economic characteristics of proteinous food consumers show that
majority (56.7%) of the household heads are about 40 years old, most (73%) of the households’ heads
are males, of which about 68% are married. A high percentage of the households heads are well
educated with mean household size of 4 and mean monthly income of N15, 000.00. The per capita
expenditures on the two classes of proteinous source of foods indicate that the mean per capita
expenditure (N 1266.11) on animal protein source food (APSF) is greater than the per capita
expenditures (N239.12) on plant protein source food (PPSF). The results show that animal protein and
plant protein consumption accounted for N5, 064.43 and N956.48 of the household monthly disposable
income respectively, representing 41% and 7.8% of household monthly disposable income of the
household. With respect to the determinants of plant protein source food (APSF) and plant protein food
consumption, the linear regression model was chosen as the lead equations on the basis of high R2, the
conformity of the signs of the coefficients with apriori expectations. The R2 for animal protein source
food (APSF) consumption is 0.80 indicating that 80% of the variations in APSF consumption is due to
the influence of the explanatory variables while that plant protein source food consumption is rather
low (29%). Household income, household size and years of schooling are the variables that
significantly and positively influence APSF consumption while plant protein source food (PPSF)
consumption was only influenced by household disposable income.
KEYWORDS: Consumption, animal, plant, protein, foo