Food Habits Driven Institutional Mess Recipes:Case of a B-School

Institution’s hostel residents choose their meals based on their food habits, with less consideration to other factors such as nutrition or hygiene. It is important to understand that food habit of inmates drives the menu (institutional food recipe) of such institutions, not necessarily with any regard to nutritional requirements of such population. However, this food habits driven food recipes that are followed in academic institutions provides a good starting point to understand the nutritional requirements of students and its actual deliverance. This research takes cue from food habits, institutional food recipe, preference of population and nutrition; and proposes to study the link between food habits and institutional food recipes, and finds the nutritional aspects of such recipes. The link between food habits, institutional food recipes, and nutrition is essential to understand the nutrition demand and nutrition supply for the population. Arguably, if there is gap in nutrition demand and supply, then the same can be corrected by changing the nutrition inputs. This research seeks to recommend not only to measure the nutrition gap, but also to bring a change in recipe to meet nutritional need. This paper studies the link between food habits and institutional food recipes, and finds the nutritional aspects of such recipes.