Food choices of students with nutritional knowledge br

Objective: This exploratory study aims to identify at the students who have acquired basic nutritional knowledge theoptions based of what healthy / less healthy foods mean, to what extent the conservatism / novelty is important in choosing products and how much independent / dependent their food choices are in fact.Methods: The methodology used in this paper consisted in drawing up a 38-item questionnaire on food choices and its completion by 50 students who attended a nutrition course.Results: This study reveals on the following tree major lines developed by the questionnaire -at the axis healthy ver-sus unhealthy food choices there are no significant differ-ences between the two categories (Paired samples test, t = 1.20, p = 0.235), at the axis choices based on con servatism versus novelty are significant results for conser vatism (Paired samples test / t = 6.95, p = 0.000) and at the axis choices based on decisional independence versus dependence are significant results for independence (Paired samples test, t = 5.59, p = 0.000).Conclusions: The autonomy of adolescence supplemented by nutritional knowledge can have positive effects in terms of correct food choices. This study shows that students with nu-tritional knowledge make choices based on conservatism and independence.Implication: Basically, this paper makes a clear radiography of the respondents' food choices and it may also provide through the questionnaire developed by us a starting point for developing new information, education and marketing strate-gies to promote the healthy food consumption.