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Early life has increasingly been recognized as a time frame in which nutritional requirements rise and lifetime diet and lifestyle taste and preferences are founded, not just as an initial moment of opportunity for catch-up growth (Goldberg GR et al. 2013) but also as a period in which nutritional requirements growth and long-time dietary interests are established. These practices can have an effect on the health status of teenagers and also coming generations (Viner RM, 2013). The aim of the study is to assess awareness on the ill effects of street food among school students. Descriptive research design been used in this study. It is concerned with describing the social demographic characters along the economic, street food issues, spreads germs and bacteria, hygienic methods, and the problems related to consumption of street food among school students. The universe of the study is 9th standards boys and girls who are studying in private higher secondary School in Trichy. There are 124 boys and 86girls who constitute the universe of the study. The researcher selected 50, 9th grade students for this study by using simple random sampling (lottery method). The research used self-prepared questionnaire covering their awareness on the ill effects of street food among school students. Major findings of the study is discussed in the full paper.