On 444 students of university in Kagoshima-shi, the survey was carried out by guestionnaire regarding their consideration of foods intake and self-evaluation of dietary life in June, 1993. The results obtained were considered as follows : 1. As for food intake, the great numbers of students who considered their intakes as "eat frequently" were found in the foodgroups of milk (43.7%), eggs (36.5%), meals (35.6%), breads (3l.5%) and vegetables (30.6%). And great values of rate of "eat rarely" were detected in the groups of tsukemono・salted (61.3%), seaweeds (43.2%), confectionaries (34.5%), soybean products・tofu・natto (28.6%), and fishes・shellfishes (25.0%). 2. Remarkable effects of the sexual and dwelling difference on the consideration of food intake could be observed, but the infuence of the grade and the faculty couldn\u27t. 3. The milk, eggs, vegetables, breads, confectionaries, and seaweeds were more frequently taken in female than in male, and meats, oily・tempura・frizzled and fishes・shellfishes were more in male than female. 4. The foods that the students living with family took more frequently than the students living on their own were vegetables, fishes・shellfishes and confectioneries. Every kind of food was taken rarely in the students living on their own than the students with their family, and fishes・shellfishes, soybeans and its products, oily, and seaweeds were noticed conspicuously. 5. The value of freguency of skipping meals was remarkably great. The sum of the students who skip the meals habitually and who skip sometimes was 63.9%. The strong relation was recognized significantly among the skipping meals, sexual, and dwelling difference (p<0.005). The skipping meals were conspicuous in the male students living on their own. 6. They thought that the most important problem of their dietary life was nutrition balance (47.8%), and the second was irregularity (39.2%). 7. Self-evaluation and intention to betterment of the dietary life were strongly influenced in the dwelling difference. It was considered that skipping meal is a important factor related to food intake, self-evaluation and intention to betterment of the dietary life
