Examining issues related to college students' diets is a way of looking at their relationship with their studies, particularly in terms of perseverance and success. Studies on other student populations show that food insecurity has a negative impact on learning, perseverance, and success, as well as slowing academic progress and increasing the risk of dropping out. However, these studies address food challenges from the perspective of food insecurity, which is an important but reductive view. The concept of food well-being/ill-being aims to address the relationship with food as a whole using five dimensions: material, relational, physical, decisional, and temporal. A survey conducted in six CEGEPs using a mixed methodology reveals that CEGEP students, in addition to experiencing food insecurity (43.9%), develop a particular relationship with food characterized by a reorganization of their eating routines and rituals.
