Abstract
The purpose of this study consists in analyzing the reality of processed food intake by students in different educational environments such as fisheries maritime high schools and general high schools and their awareness of food additives and investigating the reality of nutrition education. In order to achieve this purpose, we selected a total of 400 students as the subjects of this study from fisheries high schools located in Busan, Incheon, Gyeongbuk, Chungbuk and Jeonnam and general high schools located in Busan, Gyeonggi and Jeonnam. The findings of this study are summarized as follows. First, when analyzing the reality of fisheries Maritime and general high school students' processed food intake, in terms of the gender difference, the female students indicated a higher processed food intake frequency than the male students and in terms of the school types, the fisheries Maritime and general high school students showed an almost similar processed food intake frequency. Second, seeing that most female and male students were aware that the food additives were unsafe substances. Third, when analyzing the reality of nutrition education, there were more students who had not received a nutrition education than the students who had received a nutrition education.