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Dietary choices are brewed under a shell of different attributes of a population such as age, personal preferences, ethnicity, cultural and geographical background, health, financial state, mental state, etc. Due to various reasons, changes in lifestyle occur that brings certain events where one has to make some insightful decisions regarding food choices to play accordingly. In that time, changes in dietary habits are definite that come about consciously or subconsciously. The purpose of this study is to review and understand the autonomy of working individuals in dietary decisions with respect to their lifestyle and awareness of daily nutrition. A survey along with a subjective try-out was conducted through wellstructured questionnaires. The responses were recorded and after analyzing the data it was seen that majority of the participants had moderately active lifestyles with an average awareness of nutrition. While attributes like taste, availability and nutritional contents were considered very important, but majority of them did not check the nutritional contents of packed food materials while buying, which showed a lack of implications to practice in terms of nutrition. Attributes like past childhood, choices or religion were considered the least influencing factors. In terms of price, a value for money choice was preferred as they chose healthy options with reasonable cost mostly. These aspects of autonomy in food selection show a trend of food habits and adaptations among the specific age group in Guwahati city and will help in the further relevant study.