O ne’s food habit, is a manner of individual or group of people in selecting and consume food as a reaction to the physiological, psychological, cultural and social. The objective of this literature study is to describe the influence of food habit and economic condition to a child’s nutritional status. Daily food habit determines whether the food chosen for consumption shall provide all nutritional substances required. Lack of nutrition, caused by inadequate social-economic condition render food habit and one’s family economic condition to influence the nutritional status of a child. Excellent food habit enable the complete fulfillment of all nutrition required, adequate economic condition enable one to select and purchase various substances required for a complete nutrition to achieve well or optimum nutritional status for their child. The benefit of this literature study is to supplement knowledge of the students and the readers in Trisakti University’s Faculty of Dentistry to participate in public’s nutrition enhancement program in particular for children’s nutritional status issues.