The purpose of nutrition education is to improve people's understanding of nutrition and health, eliminate or reduce unhealthy dietary nutritional factors, improve nutritional status, prevent nutritional diseases, and promote people's health level and quality of life.

(2) The skills that nutrition educators should have.

Master the professional theoretical knowledge of nutrition and food hygiene, food science, preventive medicine and health economics.

② Understand the influence of social, economic, related policies and cultural factors on dietary nutrition.

③ Have a foundation in social psychology, cognition, pedagogy and behavior.

④ Ability to spread nutrition knowledge.

⑤ Have certain field organization, coordination and research capabilities.