Abstract Poverty issue especially, food poverty is one of the important problems in society. The awareness of amount and depth of nutrition poverty is important for solving this problem. Therefore, in this study food subsistence (food poverty line) for Iranian urban households in the period 1988-2012 was investigated with utilization of MAIDADS system. The results showed that the nutritional poverty line (monthly) has increasing trend in the aforesaid period. So that, it increased from 74851 Rail in year 1988 to 6882346 Rail in 2012, but its growth rate was not monotonic. The food inflation is the most important reason for increasing of food poverty line in this period consequently they must restrain the inflation. JEL Classification: D11، D12، I32, ,I31. Keywords: Inflation, subsistence minimum, Poverty Food Line, MAIDADS System, Urban Households. JEL Classification: D11، D12، I32, ,I31. Keywords: Inflation, subsistence minimum, Poverty Food Line, MAIDADS System, Urban Households.
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