College life provides an opportunity and independency to the students in selecting food items of their own choices. The liberty of taking decision of selecting food items from a variety of food options may often placed them at a risk of making poor food habits that can cause them significant health problems in future. The purpose of the present quantitative study was to bring awareness across college the campuses and to improve the knowledge of dietary behaviours of the students through proper investigation of college students' eating habits and their knowledge about nutritional requirements for health. Data were collected from the students of four colleges of Goalpara district of Assam, India through a self-administered survey questionnaire. Result showed that majority of undergraduate students eats at college dining facilities with limited healthy food options. More than 68 percent of the participants often ate traditional diet mostly consisting of rice, vegetables and pulses at home. However, contrary to home, more than 60 percent of the participants had shown their leniency towards fast and processed food, whereas little above 10 percent of the participants had the habits of eating traditional food items. The study has found taste preference, cost of the food, availability of the food items in the college canteen or nearby hotels and restaurants are the major causes responsible for their selection of fast foods. The statement with which the participants agreed most strongly was that fast food contains unhealthy additives. The statement with which participants showed the least level of agreement was that exercise is more important than the type of food they eat. Findings of this study indicate the need for an intervention by college authority and government to ensure and monitor the nutritive quality of the food items in the college campus.
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper to investigate the food choices of college students and determinates of their food choices. Methods –The paper has qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of research. Primary data has been gathered from the students of Starex University, Gurugram and secondary data have been gathered from various journals, books, magazines and articles. A total 50 students participate in this study. Frequency and percentage method is applied to conclude the quantitative findings. Findings – The study found that college students are mostly like to eat modern food (60%), spicy food (78%), and Non-Vegetarian food (60%). The determinates of food choices/like; such as – good taste, healthful food, good nutrition, hygienic, low cost, good quality and convenience food found very important for choose/like a food. Conclusions & Significance – It has been concluded that college students like to eat modern food such as Chowmin, burger, and sandwiches etc. The change has also been registered due to the Life style changes and the duality of the income in the households. The study is significant for the caterers of colleges to cater the students. It is helpful for them decided their menu to serve in their cafeteria. Introduction & Background of the Study The Indian life style has changed tremendously since independence. Food and taste has followed the same trend of change. As food is an important part of one's life style. It is said some people eat to live and some people live to eat. Industrialization of food industry has changed our plate; earlier fresh food constituted most of our meal, whereas now it has been replaced with processed food. Food choices among the college students vary from their culture, family background, society and living standard. (Greaney, Less et al. 2009, Nelson, Kocos, Lytle, Perry, 2009, Cluskey & Grobe, 2009). Eating behavior of student have been found to be affected by several different factors such as availability of time, discipline, self-control, society, price, budget limit, option available etc. However, the findings are related to U.S.A and remain silent on the students' background or education qualification. It has been observed that college students prefer to eat fast-food mostly. These constraints may have affected the outcomes Nagla (2007) concluded that the consumption pattern is changing in Indian household; green leafy vegetables are least preferred may be due the length of time consumed during the preparation process, viz. cleaning, washing, chopping, and finally, the cooking. In addition to this, method of preparation and cooking has become more and more advance with the use of ultra-modern equipments and fuels. Anand (2011) in her study investigated the variable affecting fast food performance of customers in India. The study revealed that the key elements laying the impact on the consumers food choice were passion for dining out, socialize, ambience and the taste for students pursuing the school and higher education along with the convenience for dual-income families in urban India. Boek (2012) investigated the determinants of Students' Food Choices on a College Campus. The study found that the students' preferences for food are positively associated with their gender and profiles. She revealed that among these, male's student consider cost, taste and quality while choosing food over quality and nutritional value. However, in case of white students showed different preference than others, location of food outlet and nutritional value of food were found to affect by gender of students.
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International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)
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IJRAR- International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews
Food has been identified as an important aspect to sustain life before the actual discovery of nutrients and identifying the role nutrients play in the growth and development of the human body. Evolution of man has reported significant changes and up gradation in the food preferences. These food preferences vary with the factors as seasonal availabilities, climatic conditions and religious beliefs of the people in communities. Today's world has a variety of food to offer to mankind extending the scope from vegetarian dishes to meat delicacies to a level that food is both cooked and preserved using chemicals compounds. Food menus at the same time are available in the from highly elaborated classical food dishes to fast food items symbolizing modern culture in satisfying customers in relatively short of time. Changing life styles in the Indian population has resulted in an extensive growth in fast food industry. Moreover, an elaborated choice available in the fast food satisfies the gastronomic preferences of people from all the regions. In this paper efforts are made to study the food preferences of students in GNA University which has about 5000 students from different parts of India. Fast food outlets in GNA University cater almost all popular fast foods through 6 major canteens/subsidized food outlets for students. Analysis of the surveys shows that a major part of the students like burgers, pizzas and rolls while the male students prefer fizzy drinks, shakes and juices and female students recommend coffee, ice creams and fresh juices. It is also concluded that both males and females students' emphasized factors like product quality, hygiene, timeliness of the service and price reasonability to choose fast food from the varied available choices.
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Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
