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Background: After pregnancy, a mother's body undergoes a tremendous number of changes and stress. Recovering from birth requires patience and support through a postnatal diet. A solid focus should be on regaining health and curing postnatal complications through right diet and healthy behaviours. Nowadays after the birth of the baby during the postnatal period mothers are faced with many problems regarding health, infections, and dietary deficiency especially in women low socioeconomic status and mostly those who are from rural do not know what is important in postnatal diet and benefits of proper diet. Methods: A descriptive quantitative study was conducted on postnatal mothers who admitted in postnatal wards. Data was collected through self-administered structured questionnaire. Convenience sampling was used. 160 total postnatal mothers were selected. Descriptive and inferential statics was used for data analysis. Results: 75% mothers belong to 21-30 age group, 62.5% mothers belong to Hindu religion, 56.3% had Senior Secondary education, 85.6% mothers are housewife, 50% mothers were primipara, 50% had non veg, 29.4% had monthly income less than 10000, 67.5% mothers had previous knowledge about postnatal diet. 39.4% had inadequate knowledge, 48.8% had moderately adequate knowledge,11.9% had adequate knowledge. The mean score is 11.37% and standard deviation score 3.553. 51.2% had poor expressed practice,46.9% had average expressed practice,1.9% had good expressed practice. The mean score is 13.96 and the standard deviation is 6.689. Chi - square test was most suitable for finding relationship between knowledge and expressed practice of sample and selected demographic variable. In this no association found between knowledge & selected demographic such as age, religion, type of family, obstetrical history, dietary pattern, monthly family income, area of living, so null hypothesis accepted. A significant association found between knowledge with selected demographic variable such as education, occupation, knowledge about postnatal diet at 0.05 level of significance. So null hypothesis was partially rejected and partially accepted. Conclusion: In this study no association was found between expressed practice & selected demographic such as age, religion, education, occupation, type of family, obstetrical history, dietary pattern, monthly family income, or area of living, so the null hypothesis was accepted. A significant association was found between the knowledge about postnatal diet at 0.05 level of significance. This study shows that postnatal mothers have moderately adequate knowledge and expressed practice regarding postnatal diet.