To obtain a nutritive food useful for preventing degenerative vascular diseases and for reinforcing and stabilizing the circulation of blood from heart, by adding powdery perilla oil in the form of essential fatty acids as a nutritive assistant agent.

This nutritive food contains powdery perilla oil in the form of essential fatty acids as a nutritive assistant agent preferably in an amount of about 1-2 g per the daily consumption amount of a nutritive food. Perilla ocimoides seeds powder obtained by germinating the Perilla ocimoides seeds, drying the germinated seeds, if necessary peeling the skins and subsequently grinding the seeds is preferably used.