Vol. 11, Special Issue 10 (2022)

India’s food and nutrition problems continue to be formidable and malnutrition is still one of the crucial problems in the process of development. The magnitude of malnutrition and the ignorance about the relationship between food and health among a majority of the rural population. The main focus of the study was to assess Somatic status and dietary pattern of farm families. Questionnaire was used for data collection from rural farm families of Karnataka State. A well-structured questionnaire was framed to gather the information on somatic status and dietary pattern of the subjects was assessed by 24-hour diet recall method. The results revealed that, rural households were consuming cereals (93.33%), fat (92.47%) and sugars (90.58%) near to RDA levels. Consumption of pulses (79.95%) as well as milk and milk products (59.19%) were better than consumption of green leafy vegetables (54.87%) and other vegetables (57.82%). Consumption of fruits (52.49%) roots and tubers (50.86%), was very much less than RDA. Majority of rural households (63.4%) had at least one over-weight person and in 46.2% of the households, there was at least one under-weight member in their family.