1. Cleanliness, hygiene and disease prevention. Eating around a table and not using chopsticks, a seemingly intimate way of eating, increases the risk of disease spreading from person to person. Diners who are sick or carriers of pathogens can spread the disease to other healthy people who dine with them by using chopsticks that "shuttle" back and forth around the table***. Therefore, the biggest benefit of using communal chopsticks and spoons, and sharing meals, is to reduce the risk of disease entering from the mouth.

2, reduce waste, civilized dining, it is because of the use of chopsticks, so the dishes are not contaminated by a variety of saliva, not eaten, diners can rest assured that packing home. Reduce waste at the same time, but also cultivate the spirit of environmental protection and conservation.

3, pay attention to nutrition, scientific collocation, the Chinese family meal way to determine the family members is difficult to really implement nutritional diet. Because the chef can decide a dish of nutritional collocation, but everyone at home has different tastes and preferences, the amount of intake of a certain food can not be mastered. If you use the meal system, just according to the different needs of each person with a good dish, then each family member can control the amount of nutritional intake.

4, dietary control, prevention of obesity, the vast majority of people generally see a table full of food is unable to resist temptation, so the amount of food can not be controlled, accidentally eat too much. But as long as the diner a large plate, the meal to eat the food in front of the edibles, it will naturally wake up and know how many calories they ingested. This approach is meal portioning, which is effective in controlling the actual intake.