台湾中华膳食营养学会的学者章乐绮则考证了郑和船队“吃什么”的问题。因为长期在海外,除了盐、酱、茶、酒、油可以携带外,其他如粮食、肉类、蔬果之类饮食,郑和船队必须就地取材。因此研究当时南洋诸国的饮食习惯,大致可以窥见船队船员们的饭碗里是一些什么食物。章乐绮依据的是船队“通事”(即翻译)所著的《瀛涯胜 Zhang Leqi, a scholar at Taiwan’s Chinese Society of Meal Nutrition, studies the issue of Zheng He’s fleet. Because long-term overseas, in addition to salt, butter, tea, wine, oil can carry other food such as grain, meat, fruits and vegetables like Zheng He fleet must be drawn on the spot. Therefore, the research on the eating habits of the Southeast Asian countries at that time can provide a glimpse of what food is in the rice bowls of the fleet seamen. Zhang Leqi is based on the fleet “General affairs ” (ie translation) by the "Ying career wins