To obtain an eating assisting tool to be used instead of a handicapped hand so that a person handicapped in the function of one hand can easily take a meal as if the person was healty.

A strut 2 is vertically provided on a pedestal 1 on a dining table, a vertically movable rack 3 is provided, a shaft 4 with an arm 5 on its one side is freely rotatably fixed to the rack 3 and a sucker 6 capable of sucking dishes is fixed to nearly the tip part of the arm. The shape and the length of the arm is structured to make a part to fit a mouth at the edge of the dish nearly the rotating center of the dish. The rotation of the shaft is driven by a motor with a decelerator and concerning its speed and method, the regulation of a safety speed and rotation is executed by a mechanical method and an electrical method. A method for vertically moving the rack 3 along the strut 2 can be manually done by moving the rack up and down by fixing a belt with teeth to a strut side and fixing a pulley with teeth with a knob 20 to a rack side and engaging them each other. When dominant hand moves rather well, the motor, etc., is not used for tilting the dish but a part of the arm is projected to fix a handle to manually operate all of the tool.