en public specific letter to the editor <div> <table align="left" hspace="0" vspace="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="padding: 0in; text-align: justify;" valign="top">T</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="text-justify:kashida"><span style="text-kashida:0%"><span style="line-height:115%"><span calibri="" style="font-family:"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">he World Health Organization, defines health literacy as cognitive and social skills increasing the motivation and ability of&nbsp; individuals to acquire information to promote and maintain their health </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(Tugut<i> et al.</i>, 2021)</span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">. Nowadays, food literacy, as a subset of health literacy are receiving serious attention worldwide </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(Vamos<i> et al.</i>, 2021)</span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">. Food literacy has been defined as a vital element in improving food insecurity and increasing food knowledge and skills with the aim of improving healthy eating behavior, which leads to reducing food hygiene inequalities </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">(Steils and Obaidalahe, 2020)</span><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div> coronavirus,covid-19,food literacy,iran university 155 157 http://jnfs.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-479-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Mousa Bamir bamir@ut.ac.ir 0000-0002-3595-6390 Yes Medical Library and Information Science, Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran Salman Farahbakhsh 0000-0001-5365-7207 No Department of Professional Health, Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran Salman Daneshi 0000-0002-9199-0382 No Department of Public Health, School of Health, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran; 4 Department of Public Health, Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran Reza Sadeghi 0000-0002-5162-6316 No Department of Public Health, Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran; 5 Department of Medical Emergencies, School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran. Hamid Jafari 0000-0002-9632-4338 No Department of Medical Emergencies, School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan, Iran