Abstract
A survey for determing the relationship of the consciousness and eating behavior concerning functional foods was carried out in July and October 2005 involving 334 female university and college students and 211 of their mothers in the Hyogo and Osaka areas. The student's mothers had a better dietary behavior than the students. Compared to the departments concerning dietary behavior, students in the food sciences had a better understanding of functional foods than students in other departments.
Mothers took more dietary supplement pellets than their daughters. Other department's students took more dietary supplements than the students in the department of food sciences.
The rate of mothers who recognized the term “functional food” and “food for specified health uses” was higher than that of their daughters. That of the students in the food science department was higher than those in the other departments. The percentage of daughters who want to use functional foods was higher than the percentage of their mothers. In the same way the percentage of food science students was higher than that of the other students.
It was observed that subjects who repeatedly ate foods for specific health uses did not tend to skip meals and eat out, and had better dietary behavior and attitudes. However, it was observed that mothers who repeatedly ate such foods tended to take dietary supplement.
