Korean J Community Nutr KJCN Korean Journal of Community Nutrition 1226-0983 2287-1624 The Korean Society of Community Nutrition 10.5720/kjcn.2014.19.1.41 Original Article Diet-Related Behaviors and Food Preference of Indonesian Park Chan Yoon Han Sung Nim Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Multicultural Human Ecology Center, Research Institute of Human Ecology, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Corresponding author: Sung Nim Han, Department of Food and Nutrition, College of Human Ecology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. Tel: (02) 880-6836, Fax: (02) 884-0305, snhan@snu.ac.kr 02 2014 28 02 2014 19 1 41 50 03 01 2014 19 02 2014 25 02 2014 Copyright © 2014 The Korean Society of Community Nutrition 2014 This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

As Korea is moving toward multicultural society, the number of Muslim, whose religion has a great influence on diet-related behaviors, is increasing in Korea. Since the number of immigrants from Indonesia ranks within top ten in Korea and Indonesia is one of the most representative Islamic countries in Asia, understanding the diet-related behaviors and food preferences of Indonesians is needed. This study was conducted to investigate diet-related behaviors, factors affecting the diet-related perceptions, and food preferences of the Indonesians. The subjects included 500 Indonesians dwelling in Jakarta, Indonesia. About ninety % of the subjects in this study were Muslims. They did not eat pork and dog meat for religious reason and they practiced fasting during Ramadan period. Indonesians avoided pineapple, durian, and hot foods during pregnancy and usually ate vegetables and fruits after birth, which seemed to be due to sociocultural influence. Among the subjects, 21.5% were obese and major health problems reported were hypertension and hyperlipidemia. Their preference for fried food items might have contributed to health problems. Subjects had meals mostly at home (2.3 times/day) and dined out occasionally (1.2 times/ week) at Indonesian restaurants (56.6%) or family restaurants (21.0%). In conclusion, Indonesians had home-based and native food-oriented dietary life with strong religious and sociocultural influence on food choices. Further research on specific nutrient intake analysis is needed to better understand and to improve dietary life of Indonesians in Korea.

 Indonesian Muslim diet-related behavior food preference dietary life The Multicultural Human Ecology Center at the Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National University

This work was supported by the Multicultural Human Ecology Center at the Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National University.

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