This descriptive research was to explore the factors that involve the local vegetables consumption of Southern people, how much they consumed and the relationship between their attitudes and the amount and variety of local vegetables consumption and the amount and variety of local vegetables consumption and health status. 500 subjects were recruited from rural and urban area, 5 provinces of Southern Thailand . Collecting data (during Sep-Dec. 2004) from interviews, field note and questionairs, i.e. , attitude questionnaire ( reliability .75) , the local vegetables consumption Form and health status assessment Form.

The results were as follows ; The majority were below 60 years olds (88.4%) , female (70.0%) , Buddhists (83.2%) , income was not gained enough (52.4%) , gained the knowledge on local vegetables consumption from their family (56.6%), growing local vegetables for themselves (63.8%) , they had a high positive attitude towards the local vegetables, the frequency of eating not much average each kind of vegetables once per month. Comparing the consumption of local vegetables of rural people ate more than the urban people (p<.01) , the farmers group ate more than non-farmers group (p<.01), the group perceiving not enough income consumed local vegetables more than the enough income group (p<.01), group with higher educational background consumed local vegetables less than the lower group (p<.01). The amount and variety of local vegetables consumption was positive correlated with health status (r = .11, p<.01). The attitude was positively correlated with the amount and variety of local vegetables consumption (r = .13, p< .01).

Key words: Traditional Local vegetables consumption, health