The Pattern Evaluation of Daily Food for Female Students, King Saud University

The study was conducted to evaluate the dietary intake for Saudi female students at College of Food Science and Agriculture and College of Science, King Saud University using 24 hour dietary intake method. Data were collected through reliable and valid questionnaire. A simple random sample of 313 Saudi female students representing 25% of the study population were selected. Percentage, mathematical means, t-test were used to analyze the data using SPSS Program.
Results revealed that most of the female students obtained three major meals a days 98.7% had breakfast, 98% Lunch and 95.8% dinner. 79.9% of the participants had a meal in between breakfast and lunch. while the percentage of meal consumed after dinner 52.6%.
The finding indicated that the students' daily nutrients intake exceeded significantly the dietary reference intakes  (DRI) for  protein,  carbohydrate  and
significantly insufficient for energy, iron, potassium, fat, manganese of Women's  College of Food Sciences and Agriculture and the vitamin (a) for students of Faculty of Science.
Result showed that most the daily nutrients intake for female students at College of Food Sciences and Agriculture were significantly higher when compare with the daily nutrients intakes by students from College of Science, especially  for protein and vitamin (c), and vitamin (a), and magnesium. It was recommend that balanced diets should be maintain by food service department at King Saud University that meet the body requirement and nutritional need. More attention should be gives to nutritional education for the university female students.