Communities are striving to become healthier. They are using food and nutrition initiatives to reduce healthcare costs, increase educational success and achieve the quality of life.”

Human needs to obtain nutrients from foods in order to survive and and be healthy. People living in different places take nutrients from different kinds of food, therefore nutrition is a cultural biological process rather than a simple physiological and biochemical process. Food intake can directly influence ones biological function through life, as it results on a biological level. Food is not only the source of nutrition for human, but also plays various role in our daily life, beliefs and socioeconomic.

Food has many symbolic meanings it not only expresses but also establishes the relationship between people and their environment as well as between people and what they believe. Therefore, food is an important component of a society. In human society food is a means for people to establish and express relationships between one another.