Socio-economic status, nutritional and food safety knowledge, attitude and practices of women street food vendors in Kolkata

Street food vending helps to solve social and economic problems in cities like Kolkata through the provision of ready-made meals at relatively affordable prices. Many women have chosen street food vending as the source of their livelihood. But sometimes can’t improve their business due to lack of nutritional and food safety knowledge and also lack of business facilities. After collecting data a statistical analysis has done and found that there have some relation with nutritional and food safety knowledge, attitude and practices with their socio- economic status. It is recommended that job security, financial helping and nutritional and food safety training should be provided by Government to improve the street food industry and also to improve the condition of women food vendor.