Nutritional education is not just about ‘what not to eat’, but about understanding how the fuel we put into our bodies influences our energy, mood, and longevity. In a world full of ultra-processed foods, knowing how to read a label and balance nutrients is a modern survival skill. With regard to the association between emotional intelligence and nutritional education, we started from the premise that emotional intelligence mediates the way subjects perceive the necessity of this new form of education today. The study explored a possible connection between the emotional intelligence level and the association of the occupational therapy profession with terms targeting the emotional-empathic dimension of personality, and the tendency to associate the profession of occupational therapist with the emotional-empathic dimensions of personality. Even more, it examined if the emotional intelligence level mediates the way in which the social perception of nutritional education is structured.