Impact of Canteen Food on Brain Development of the Students: An Empirical Study on the University of Chittagong

Abstract

The campus environment of the University plays an important role in the daily academic activities of students. Most students consume at least one snack or one meal in the canteens on most days of the week. The main objective of this paper is to explore the standard of canteen food on academic achievement through brain development of a public university in Bangladesh. Chittagong University was purposively selected as a study area for the present study. Adopting a descriptive qualitative approach and using the data of 2018, forty-one departments from eight faculties, this study finally juxtapose the four key issues like good hydration, food insufficiency, unhygienic foods, and diseases that lead straightly negative brain development of the students highly and so poor academic achievement of the University of Chittagong. Therefore this report suggests for providing green or fresh canteen food with fruits and vegetables, special combo meals in a week, food carnival and obligatory linked with food and nutrition departments. Finally, this paper recommended a complaint box in each faculty canteen to have regular feedback about canteen items and further improvement.