Ecology of Food and Nutrition is an international journal of the nutritional sciences in the broadest sense. It emphasizes foods and food systems and their utilization to satisfy human nutritional needs, but it also examines nonfood factors that contribute to the spectrum of nutritional conditions, such as obesity and leanness, malnutrition vitamin requirements and mineral needs. The content scope is thus wide; articles may consider dietary and nutritional status issues arising from cultural prohibitions, traditional usages, and problems of marketing and transportation. Food nutrients and toxicants, additives and food quality are also topics considered, as are ethnobotany, agriculture and development. Many of the journal's contributors are trained in nutrition, nutritional science and food technology, but the behavioral and social sciences, including psychology, geography and economics, are also represented, as are the food industry and its critics. The perspective of the journal is ecological and holistic in its treatment of food and nutrition issues, and represents a wide range of disciplines, separately or combined. The Institute of Scientific Information Journal Citations Report for 2002 ranks Ecology of Food and Nutrition 45th out of 50 journals in Nutrition & Dietetics (Social Science), with an impact factor of 0.215.

《食品與營養生態學》是國際營養學雜志中最廣泛的一本。它強調食品和食品系統及其利用，以滿足人類營養需求，但它也審查了非食品因素，有助于各種營養條件，如肥胖和瘦弱，營養不良的維生素需求和礦物質需求。因此，內容范圍很廣；文章可以考慮飲食和營養狀況問題，這些問題來自文化禁令、傳統用法以及營銷和運輸問題。食品營養物質和有毒物質、添加劑和食品質量也是人們關注的話題，民族植物學、農業和發展也是如此。《華爾街日報》的許多撰稿人都受過營養、營養科學和食品技術方面的培訓，但行為科學和社會科學，包括心理學、地理學和經濟學，也有代表性，食品工業及其批評者也有代表性。該雜志的觀點是生態的和整體的，在處理食物和營養問題，并代表了廣泛的學科，單獨或結合。2002年《科學信息研究所期刊引文報告》將食品與營養生態學列為營養與營養學（社會科學）50種期刊中的45種，影響因子為0.215。