This research has four main purposes. The first is to explore food consumption behavior of housewives in Engineering Regiment of Burachat Camp Ratchaburi province. The second the third and the fourth are to study relations between basic individual factors environmental factors and nutritional knowledge and food consumption behaviors respectively. A group of 245 20-59 year-old housewives living in Engineering Regiment of Burachat Camp Ratchaburi was sampled with stratified random sampling approach. Data were gathered through questionnaire and statistically analyzed for percentage mean standard deviation and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The study found that most respondents were in the age group of 31 and 40 years old (52.65%) with lower than bachelor degree education (72.65%) two children (64.49%) and average monthly income of 8001 to 13000 baht (42.86%). Environmental factors were in medium level (71.43%) and nutritional knowledge were quite good at 34.69%. Finally overall food consumption behavior was in medium level at 49.80%. According to the results of correlations between basic individual factors environmental factors and nutritional knowledge and food consumption behaviors it was found that environmental factors had significant relations to food consumption behavior (p<0.05).

Chemical composition of commercial pasteurized milks contained different fat content (full-fat; FF low-fat; LF and non-fat; NF) was studied. NF contained the lowest fat content (0.12%) with the highest protein content (3.20%). NF exhibited the highest foaming ability and stability. The chemical compositions physical and sensorial properties of chocolate mousse produced from FF LF or NF were also investigated. M-NF had the lowest in fat content resulting in energy reduction when compared with M-FF and M-LF. M-NF also showed the highest firmness and adhesiveness (p<0.05). This was probably due to different chemical composition of pasteurized milk used. For color measurement M-FF showed the highest L* value. However all chocolate mousse samples had no difference likeness score for texture taste and flavor (p>0.05). From the results commercial pasteurized non-fat milk could be not only used for chocolate mousse production without effect on textural and sensorial properties but the energy from fat was also reduced.