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This article suggests that food is an important driver of individual health, and an important subject in the research of public policy and health interventions. This study explores basic fundamental theories about healthy nutrition with consumers in Germany. This study aims to identify and characterize different consumer groups using the Q methodology. Thirty German consumers assessed statistics that represent the broad spectrum of individuals and trust in healthy nutrition into the quasi-normal distribution. Factor analysis identifies four main layers of healthy nutrition: (1) "Healthy nutrients are expensive and uncomfortable", (3) "Health is everything that makes me slim and beautiful", and (4) "Just home-made, organic, and vegetarian food is healthy ". Consensus exists among the theories about the question of who believes in information. These findings underscore that certain consumer groups should be involved separately when intervening in healthy nutrition issues.