Abstract
Nutritional investigations were made by classifying the foods taken by the housewives in Obara Village (Aichi Prefecture).
As a material, housewives were used because of the following reasons; (1) responsibility for daily cooking, (2) the main role in farm works, (3) possibility of attending to a short course, (4) possibility of inquiry at the same time, and also (5) possibility of observing the effects of improvement of nutritional conditions.
As the results, it became obvious that farmers and sidework farmers did not take sufficient animal protein, fat, calcium, vitamin A, B1, B2 and C. It was indicated that these deficiencies were derived from insufficient intake of the following foods classified as milk and eggs, soybean and its processed foods, green or yellow vegetables and fruits, and oil and fat.
To remedy these nutritional deficiency, the foods mentioned above or enriched foods (such as rice, barley or bean paste) should be much more utilized. The standard menu for nutrition and diet was made for adult female in this village as a target of dietary betterment.
