Abstract
The Japanese people have a great need for consumer education, especially of food, because they have limited food resources, and their environment and food are polluted remarkably. This research was performed to clarify how consumer education of food in junior high schools plan and practice. The results obtained through a mailed questionnaire to all teachers of homemaking in junior high schools in Chiba Prefecture were as follows : 1. The problem on quality of food such as food additives, food labelling and convenience foods has been taught more actively rather than that of quantity, such as the low level of self-sufficiency of food in Japan. 2. Most teachers are unable to prepare sufficiently for consumer education, because they have a great deal of responsibility for other subjects in addition to homemaking, and are difficult to get materials or correct information on consumer education of food.
