The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of health eating literacy to eating habits and life experiences in university students. A multiple-choice questionnaire was conducted among 299 students in Yamaguchi Prefectural University. The results showed that only about half of students had the abilities to assess, to convey and to utilize the eating-related information, while most of the students had the abilities to acquire and to understand it. The results also showed that

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... ng the 5 abilities for health eating literacy, the former three had a significant relationship with proper eating habits, experience of interpersonal communication, eating-related experience with a family and experiences in a natural environment. Our results suggest that paying attention to these habits and experiences may be important for improving the health eating literacy of university students.