| # | Title | Artist | Length |
|---|
| 2 | Uptown Top Ranking | Althea & Donna | 3:12 |
| 11 | Night Nurse | Gregory Isaacs | 3:39 |
| 1 | Israelites | Desmond Dekker & the Aces | 2:36 |
| 3 | You Don't Love Me (No, No, No) | Dawn Penn | 3:17 |
| 4 | Now That We've Found Love | Third World | 3:50 |
| 5 | Good Thing Going | Sugar Minott | 3:33 |
| 6 | 54-46 (Was My Number) | Aswad | 3:09 |
| 7 | Point of View | Matumbi | 3:18 |
| 8 | Prodigal Son | Steel Pulse | 3:34 |
| 9 | What Is Life | Black Uhuru | 5:42 |
| 10 | My Jamaican Guy | Grace Jones | 6:00 |
| 12 | Food for Thought- engineer:
- Bob Lamb
- producer:
- Bob Lamb and UB40
- bass:
- Earl Falconer
- congas and percussion:
- Norman Hassan
- drums (drum set):
- Jim Brown
- guitar [lead guitar]:
- Robin Campbell
- guitar [rhythm guitar] and lead vocals:
- Ali Campbell
- keyboard, organ and strings:
- Michael Virtue
- melodica and tenor saxophone:
- Brian Travers
- spoken vocals [talk over vocal]:
- Astro
- vocals:
- Robin Campbell
- phonographic copyright (℗) by:
- Graduate Records (in 1980)
- recorded at:
- Home of the Hits in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom (from 1979-12-21 until 1980-07-01)
- recording of:
- Food for Thought (from 1979-12-21 until 1980-07-01)
- writer:
- Jim Brown, Ali Campbell, Robin Campbell, Earl Falconer, Norman Hassan, Brian Travers, Michael Virtue and Terence Wilson
| UB40 | 4:09 |
| 13 | Police & Thieves | Junior Murvin | 4:11 |
| 14 | War Ina Babylon | Max Romeo | 4:50 |
| 15 | Stir It Up | Johnny Nash | 3:04 |
| 16 | Cool Meditation | Third World | 3:06 |
