Abstract
The condition of taking nutriment among students taking lessons in the building of the Faculty of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University was investigated.
Kinds and rough amounts of foods taken by them during successive three days between the 21st (Mon.) and the 26th (Sat.) May, 1956 and between the 3rd (Mon.) and the 8th (Sat.) June, 1957 were recorded by themselves, and the nutrition values of those foods were calculated by our using the Table of Japanese Standard Components of Food Materials.
31 students (containing 5 women) in 1956 and 62 students (containing 10 women) in 1957 were selected as objects of this investigation. The result was compared with the standard values, and it was showed that the values in 1957 vised to some degree compared with those in the previous year, but generally they were behind the standard values, and especially the amounts of Calcium and Vitamins reached to about only 1/3 of the standard values, and generally the amounts of foods from animal matter were insufficient.
