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| 1368 AD–1644 AD || || || "The Ming (1368-1644 AD) Dynasties saw an even deeper understanding of nutrition and dietetic therapy developed. The great Physician and naturalist Li Shi Zhen (1518-1593 AD) wrote “Compendium of The Materia Medica” a monumental work listing many dietary therapy recipes which placed most foods in the pharmacopeia. At the same time, many nutrition and diet therapy books such as Lu he’s “A Dietary Material Medica”, Bao Sagan’s “The Collection of Vegetables” and Wang Shixiong, “A Collection of Recipes in Leisure Residence”, were published. All of theses texts discussed the properties, actions and indications of foods, and dietary structure, from different angles."<ref name="The History Of Chinese Nutrition"/>
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| 1939 || Nutrition || || The Committee on Nutrition of the Chinese Medical Association sets the recommended calorie requirement for an adult Chinese in a temperate climate and living not by manual labor but in an ordinary way, at 2400 per day. This is the same amount considered adequate for Europeans.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Simoons |first1=Frederick J. |title=Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=H0JZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA475&dq=nutrition+china+%22in+1930..1949%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3hYqIm4vmAhVcGLkGHTwoBtgQ6AEIOjAC#v=onepage&q=nutrition%20china%20%22in%201930..1949%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1949 || || || "Shortly after the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, a nationwide agrarian reform to abolish the feudal system of landownership was implemented over a three-year period. After the land redistribution, peasants found great incentives to accelerate agricultural production. Both the total production and per caput consumption of major food items increased steadily until 1957 (State Statistics Bureau, 1991),"<ref name="and nutritional status"/> " China’s gross domestic product (GDP) was US$60 per capita (1990 dollars) in 1949, about half the average of Asian countries, compared with US$600 per capita (1990 dollars) in 1840. In 1949 total mortality rates, infant mortality rates, and maternal mortality rates were 30 per 1,000; 200 per 1,000; and 1,500 per 100,000, respectively. Life expectancy was only 35 years. Hundreds of thousands of people died of hunger."<ref name="China in the period"/>
