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Purpose: The aim of this bachelor’s thesis was provide an overview of the scientific literature on the eating habits of today’s Finnish upper comprehensive school students and the different aspects that the impact how they choose their food according to research results of the studies published in 2010’s. Methods: To this end, I engaged in a narrative literature review of research published on the topic between the years 2010 and 2019. The final analysis based on 13 different publications. The analysis for the review has made by using the content analysis, where the content has analysed first in to themes which indicates the research questions. After the themes have been analysed, the themes were able to transfer in the final results. Results and conclusions: The Finnish upper comprehensive school students are aware of the fact what are the healthy eating habits or what they should eat in daily basics. The research have shown the problem that the adolescents do not know how to take the healthy choices to practice even if they knew what the healthy eating habits were. The studies have also noticed that eating with the regular meal rhythm is challenging for the Finnish adolescents. Special notice has been made that the adolescents do not eat breakfast or school lunch so often in their daily basics and tehy replace the missing meals with unhealthy snacks. The researchers have also noticed that there is a difference between the genders in the eating habits. It was more likely for the boys to eat against the healthy eating habits and they ate more unhealthy snacks than the girls. According to the researchers results, adolescents from the families with the lower social economical statuses ate more against the healthy eating habits. The researchers have found a connection that the adolescents have common eating habits with their friends and they have similar food choices. The studies have discovered also that the area where the adolescent live and the school is placed, affects to their eating habits and choosing the food. Also, the society have noticed to have an influence to the adolescents eating habits and how they choose their food. The literature review had shown results that research should pay more attention to Finnish adolescents eating habits. All the results from this literature review should not be used without a second and more trustworthy research.