We investigated the effectiveness of a university cafeteria as a place of dietary education by putting 10 kinds of poster related to diet or nutrition in the sign stand on the dining tables at a university cafeteria over a period of 10 weeks (1 week for each poster).
We conducted a questionnaire survey among students using the cafeteria with respect to such items as requests to the cafeteria, awareness of nutritional balance, frequency of eating breakfast, and utility of the posters in the sign stand. The survey was carried out among 250 students before posting the posters in the sign stand and 233 students after posting those.
Almost all of students were estimated the posters in the sign stand as a useful information and easy to understand. Awareness of students to vegetable intake and nutritional balance increased after posting the posters. It was suggested that putting the posters related to diet or nutrition in the sign stand on the dining tables at the cafeteria were effective as one method of dietary support for university students.