Korean J Nutr.  2006 Oct;39(7):699-706.

Survey on Korean Food Preference of College Students in Seoul: Focused on the Staple Food and Snack

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  • 1Department of Food Service Management & Nutrition, Sangmyung University, Seoul 110 - 743, Korea. leejs1945@hanmail.net

Abstract

This study was carried out to know the food preferences of college students in Seoul. The subject was 403 students (197 males and 206 females), using questionnaires during June 2004. Regarding preference of the staple foods, it was shown that both male and female students had the highest preferences for boiled rice, chicken porridge, naengmyon, boiled rice with assorted meat and vegetable mixtures, and Kimchi with fried rice but the lowest preferences for boiled rice mixed with beans and sesame porridge (p < 0.05). Male students preferred boiled rice, boiled rice mixed with beans, boiled rice mixed with millet, boiled rice mixed with barley, rice porridge, abalone porridge, pine nut porridge, red-bean porridge, pumpkin porridge, vegetable porridge, sesame porridge, ramyon, noodles with assorted vegetable mixtures, udong noodles, noodles with black-bean sauce, chinese-style hotchpotch noodle with vegetables and seafood, blackish bean sauce with rice, curry with rice, omelette rice and rice cake and dumpling soup more than female students (p < 0.05). For the preference of snacks, honeyed rice-cake was preferred the most by both of them and male students had higher preferences for cake made from glutinous rice and songpyon than female students (p < 0.05). Male students liked strawberry and pear and female students liked strawberry the most. Preferences for apple, pear, banana, persimmon, and musk melon were higher in male students than female students (p < 0.05).

Keyword

food preferences; university students; staple foods; snack

MeSH Terms

Chickens
Cucurbita
Cucurbitaceae
Diospyros
Fabaceae
Female
Food Preferences*
Fragaria
Hordeum
Humans
Male
Meat
Musa
Nuts
Panicum
Pyrus
Seafood
Seoul*
Sesamum
Snacks*
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vegetables
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