Bangladesh, being a developing country, has made substantial progress in providing food to its large population base over the years, yet the country has been facing challenges from lessening gaps between the food intake for a person in a day and the minimum requirement for balanced nutrition from diet food. Empirical studies have shown that dietary preference and nutrition are closely linked with each other where diet could be seen as an integrated concept of ecological, economic, social, cultural and nutritional requirements. In this article, the authors empirically analyze food production and consumption pattern with nutritional status in Bangladesh. The authors have found that over the last twenty years (1991 to 2010) food production and resultant food intake has increased both in rural and urban areas, but it is increasing mainly in cereal based carbohydrate which is likely to contribute in resolving the problems of inadequate food intake and chronic malnutrition among poor people, leaving inadequate supply and consumption of other elements of a balanced diet. The paper, therefore, recommends that production of non-cereal crops needs to enhance along with providing scope of poor population to access all types of food. For long term food security, the authors have emphasized on all four dimensions of food security (availability, accessibility, utilization and stability) along with implementation of programmes like nutrition education, food fortification, improvement in drinking water quality and public health (Basak et al. 2015).