Abstract
A questionnaire survey on miso was conducted using 105 (in 1995) and 112 (in 1996) women's college students. The results are as follows:
1) Most students eat miso soup once a day or 2 3 times a week.
2) 90% of them eat a cup of miso soup during a meal.
3) 60-64% of the students like miso soup. The number of students that answered with miso soup as their favorite ateit once a day, twice a week and once a week in that order.
4) 73-74% of the students eat miso soup cooked using mixed miso (mixed kojimiso rice and kojimiso barley).
5) Unexpectedly, 35% of the miso soup they ate is cooked using the soup stock on the market.
6) The ingredient that does not damage the flavor of miso, such as tofu, fried bean curd or seaweed, was the most popular.