Abstract :  In an era where awareness about health, nutrition and fitness has taken center stage, there still is much to be known about the essential ‘building block’ of life – Protein. Many reports indicate that majority of Indians are not aware of what is their ideal daily protein intake requirement. The information regarding the perception of high biological value foods among nutrition students were collected using the questionnaire in the Google form. Among the 100 selected nutrition students, 19% are vegetarians and 81% students preferred non- vegetarian sources. Nearly 95% of the students aware of the term high biological value foods. Among the vegetarian respondents, 17±1.8 of them preferred milk and yogurt, whereas 79±1.5 respondents preferred egg in non-vegetarian respondents. Majority of the students both dayscholars and hostellers had high biological value foods by weekly once or twice only. Regarding the intention towards high biological value food consumption, it was clear that 72% of the total respondents consumed for its nutritive value, 20% for taste, 5% for its variety and only 3% consumed for its aroma. Hence majority of the selected nutrition students have knowledge on the high -biological value foods but the intake need to be improved.

Keywords: High biological value foods, protein, vegetarian source, non-vegetarian source, nutrition, students

| DOI: 10.17148/IARJSET.2021.81261