The Uttar Pradesh state has been struggling with multiple challenges in nutrition, it is directly affected by social, economic, and environmental factors. Therefore this primer needs to deeply understand the determinants of nutrition to resolve the challenges. The main objective of the study is to understand the qualitative characteristics of the deteriorating nutritional status of rural households in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. Eight rural villages were selected for group discussion from the different agroclimatic zone of the Uttar Pradesh state in 2019-20, a total of 32 group discussions were conducted to understand food practice, food consumption, availability and accessibility, food prices, nutrition knowledge, and awareness, cropping pattern, kitchen garden & animal husbandry, other food sources, and bought foods. The result of the study showed that fruits and dry fruits, cooking oil, meat, pulses, and fish were expensive to the buying capacity of rural households, while staple food items (wheat, rice, and potato) were according to their affordability. Religious beliefs and restrictions about the food were not allowed to eat garlic, onion, and non-vegetarian food items in the broad community. Usually, homemakers did cook traditional recipes with less diversity in variety. Many misconceptions about available food were a reason for the fever intake of certain foodstuffs.