Qualitative studies in nutrition and feeding

The article reviews and comments the qualitative studies and the ones that make relationship between social and human sciences in the nutrition and feeding areas; 93 articles have been selected in publications in the SciELO database, of a general listing obtained with the key words: feeding and nutrition. It was classified in five subjects: social, cultural, cognitive and psychological dimensions of feeding; education/nutritional orientation; analysis and evaluation of politics and programs of feeding and nutrition; profession, formation of human resources and theoretician and methodological studies. Considerations on qualitative research in landmarks of social sciences and commentaries on each of the subjects have been weaved. It is concluded that the qualitative research had positively extended interlocution of Nutrition with Social and Human Sciences, although requiring improvement in theories and methodologies, in some subjects, and to adjust the agreement of the qualitative research; there is a strong presence of the Revista de Nutricao and periodic of Public Health/Collective Health in the academic production, a focus in the work of some authors and the necessity to give support in Social and Human Sciences in Nutrition formation and to improve the multidisciplinary practice in the qualitative studies.