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India’s food and nutrition problems continue to be formidable and malnutrition is still one of the crucial problems in the process of development. The magnitude of malnutrition and the ignorance about the relationship between food and health among a majority of the population. The main focus of the study was to assess dietary pattern of the farm women. Questionnaire was used for data collection from farm women (n=300) of Chamarajanagar district. Three hundred farm women were selected. A well-structured questionnaire was framed to gather the information on dietary pattern of the subjects was assessed by 24– hour diet recall method. The results revealed that, Pulses (31.70), milk and milk products (87.13), roots and tubers (45.10), GLV’s (38.67), other vegetables (58.30), fruits (17.33), sugar (14.13) and fat (18.90) consumption is very low when compared to RDA whereas consumption of cereal is high when compared to recommended dietary allowances. The mean nutrient intake of energy (1809 kcal), protein (42.71 g), fat (20.84 g), fibre (15.28 g), iron (17.12 mg), -Carotene (1345 μg) and Vitamin C(23.32 mg) were less when compared to the RDA except for calcium (757.45 mg). The results shows that with respect to nutrition adequacy calcium was found to be higher than recommended in subjects whereas remaining all other nutrients consumption was found inadequate.
Key words: Food, Nutrients, Fibre, Calcium, Health, Vegetables.