Introduction: Food adulteration is the process of reducing a product's quality or nature by removing essential components and adding a foreign or inferior material. Food adulteration is a big health concern these days. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a structured education program on food adulteration and its health implications among women at selected community area, Kollam.

Materials and methods: The study was conducted among 60 women by using quasi experimental pre-test post-test design at selected areas of Pallithottam, Kollam. The study adopted a convenient nonprobability sampling technique. demographic proforma and a structured knowledge questionnaire were used to acquire data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to tabulate and evaluate the data.

Result: In the pre-test in control group majority belongs to average level of knowledge (73.33%) and remaining 26.67% belongs to poor knowledge where in the experimental group majority were having average level of knowledge (76.67%) and remaining (16.67%)were having poor level of knowledge and 6.66% good level of knowledge. After the structured teaching programme the result shows that in knowledge calculated “t” value ( 28.363) is higher than that table value 2.045 at 0.05 level of significance. The result also showed that there was significant association between knowledge and demographic variables like age, and previous source of knowledge.

Conclusion: The structured teaching program was effective in increasing the knowledge regarding food adulteration and its health implication among women.