Changes in food habits during pandemic times with reference to eating out in Pune city

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive impact on human health, causing sudden lifestyle changes, through social distancing and isolation at home, with social and economic consequences. Optimizing public health during this pandemic requires not only knowledge from medical and biological science but also of all human sciences related to lifecycle, social and behavioral studies, including dietary and habits. The sudden pandemic affected people to eat out and are more bothered about safety and hygiene. The study helps to rebuild the eating-out culture again by reducing the risk factors due to the pandemic/COVID-19. The research aiming to find the alterations in food habits during pandemic times. Due to the time and resource limitation, respondents within Pune city are considered for the research to carry out