The aim of this study was to examine the effect of breakfast habits on the daily energy, macronutrients, dietary fibre and cereals intake in a group of students at the University of Rijeka. The study sample (n=601), with an average age of 22.1± ; ; 1.2 y, was divided according to the type of food eaten for breakfast into: skippers (BS 30.28 %), high fat-high sugar (HF-HS 6.49%), high fat-high protein (HF-HP 14.97 %) and cereal-based (CB 48.26%) breakfast eaters. For assessing food habits, daily energy and nutrients intake, the semi-quantified FFQ was used, from which the consumption of unrefined and refined cereals was also represented. The results obtained have shown that subjects who ate HF-HP breakfast had higher daily energy and carbohydrates intake (p