Nutritional Quality and Dietary Intake

A number of developing countries in Asia have a rapidly developing economy. They tend to follow industrialized countries in Europe and North America in various aspects of technologies and lifestyles, including food and diets. For instance, soda beverages, hamburgers, dairy products, pizza, and fried chickens have become popular in recent years in Asian countries. How to improve the nutritional status of developing countries while avoiding prob­ lems associated with diets of industrialized countries is of the utmost impor­ tance to health science professionals and food technologists. Consumers in the late twentieth century are concerned about health aspects of foods. This concern is widespread, perhaps equal to or wider than the concerns related to food cost or food safety. Foods and diets that promote health and prevent dis­ eases will be the utmost, universal interest in the next century.