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The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence of a dietary behavior and to find out what the determinants of diet quality among the low socio-economic status population are. The studied sample consisted of 1710 respondents. Only 3% of the beneficiaries had healthy dietary habits. Unhealthy dietary habits dominated in all the study group regardless of the subjects\u2019 level of education (p &lt; 0.001). Higher odds of unhealthy dietary habits were reported among the respondents with primary, vocational, and secondary education than among the respondents with high education (for the primary education OR = 11.10; 95% CI: 5.86\u201321.01; p \u2264 0.001; for vocational education OR = 10.54; 95% CI: 5.79\u201319.18; p \u2264 0.001 and for secondary education OR = 5.83; 95% CI: 3.48\u20139.79; p \u2264 0.001). The unhealthy dietary behavior prevalence among beneficiaries of government welfare assistance in Poland is much higher than in the general population. 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