Abstract: 

High School students throughout the United States are suffering from a myriad of diseases related to

diet. This idea has been addressed through multiple studies, but no study has described this link by combining

specifically “Nutritional Literacy” and “Diet Quality”. United States High school students are of the adolescent

age group and develop many of the habits they will carry with them in life during this time. These students took

the “NLit Assessment” and the “Short Form Food Frequency Questionnaire”, which was analyzed through the

Diet Quality Index, in order to determine the correlation between Nutritional Literacy and Diet Quality. A

multitude of statistical analysis strategies determined that this correlation was not consistent and that there may

be more factors contributing to Diet Quality more heavily. Future research is required to find more factors that

contribute to this correlation, rather than nutritional literacy. More information regarding the importance of diet

health to students may also be necessary.

Keywords: Nutritional Literacy, Diet Quality, Food Frequency, Macronutrients, Micronutrients