Abstract

Subhash Chandra Verma and Girja Shankar Yadav

In this paper, we studied about food habits of the educated Tharu and Buksa youth. 76 Tharu and 40 Buksa (total of 116) youth were interviewed for this study. At present, some Tharu and Buksas youth are ignoring their traditional food and accepting some fast foods rapidly. The Tharu and Buksa people were non-vegetarians and traditionally so, maximum youth were non-vegetarians also. Maximum TharuBuksa youth used non-vegetarian food after a week. They also like milk and milk-products. 92.24% youth used non-vegetarian foods; only 7.76% youth were vegetarians. Female youth were more (15%) than males (3.95%) in vegetarian’s category. 96.05% males and 85% females used non-vegetarian foods normally. The Tharu and Buksas youth that is studying in the cities like to eat fast foods in market. Chinese fast foods like Chowmin, Indian Dosa, Chat-Pakoda and other packed food were popular in Tharu and Buksas. Maximum (64.66%) youth eat fast food one time in a week, 18.10% is two or three times in a week and 17.24% used it sometimes. Percentage of females (57.5%) is more than male (52.63%) in weekly and some times (7.89%), (17.5%) is use of fast foods.