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During adolescent period, rapid changes in physical growth and psychosocial development have placed these young adults in nutritionally vulnerable groups with poor eating habits that fail to meet essential dietary requirements. Health of adolescent girls has intergenerational effect. (1) To assess the dietary intake of various food items and (2) to see the variation in dietary intake of girls from rural and urban area. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 670 school going adolescent girls of Jamnagar District of Gujarat, with the help of a predesigned and pretested questionnaire. Information were collected regarding sociodemographic features and dietary pattern, intake of nutritious, and non-nutritious food items from 9th to 12th std. girls who were willing to participate. Analysis was done using percentages and χ2 test to see rural-urban differences. Most of …