Nutrition education is an important part of quality education and the basic content of lifelong education.

Nutrition education is a branch and component of health education. The process of educational activities to help individuals and groups master nutrition knowledge and healthy lifestyle mainly through nutrition information exchange and behavior intervention. Its purpose is to eliminate or reduce dietary nutritional factors and bad eating habits that affect health, improve nutritional status, prevent the occurrence of nutritional diseases related to diet, and promote people's health level and quality of life.

Concept of nutrition education: Nutrition education mainly refers to the educational activities and processes that help individuals and groups acquire food and nutrition knowledge and cultivate a healthy lifestyle through the exchange of nutrition information. It is also a branch and an important part of health education. The main content of nutrition education: train the relevant personnel engaged in catering, agriculture, commerce, light industry, medical and health care, disease control and planning in a planned way.

Incorporating nutrition knowledge into the teaching content and teaching plan of primary and secondary schools, it is necessary to arrange nutrition knowledge education for certain class hours, so that students can understand the principle of balanced diet, cultivate good eating habits and improve their self-care ability; Incorporate nutrition work into the primary medical and health service system, improve the nutritional knowledge level of primary medical and health personnel and residents, and rationally use local food resources to improve nutritional status; Extensive mass nutrition publicity activities are carried out by using various publicity media.