Health and food unit 3.1
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- Created on: 16-12-20 14:01
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- Health and food technology
- Factors affecting food choice
- Moral/religions
- Health, allergies and dietary conditions
- Technology (online shopping)
- Food preparation skills
- Income/budget
- Lifestyle
- Work patterns
- Night shifts
- Advertising/media
- Nutritional knowledge
- Accessibility/ availability
- Peer pressure
- Age
- Likes/dislikes
- Seasonality
- Time off the year when a certain food is at its best.
- How does seasonality affect your food choice
- Limits. Your food choice.
- Freshers and cheaper.
- If consumers were aware of this then they may buy more locally grown produce
- Reducing food miles
- Organic produce
- Advantages
- Organic produce may be nutritional better.
- Tastes better
- Free from chemicals and pesticides
- Less harmful to the environment
- Free from chemicals and pesticides
- Tastes better
- Organic produce may be nutritional better.
- Disadvantages
- More expensive
- Appearance may be less attractive
- No nutritional benefit is gained
- Advantages
- Factory farming
- A term used to describe a farm which operates like a factory instead of a farm.
- Advantages
- Food is cheaper.
- Unaware of animal welfare
- Disadvantages
- Animal welfare
- Animal diseases spreading
- Use of antibiotics, pesticides and growth hormones
- Farmers markets
- Locally produce by farmers and usually happen monthly
- Why consumers may choose farmers markets?
- Fresh, local and healthy produce
- Fewer food miles
- Reduced packaging
- Organic
- Why consumers may not choose farmer markets
- Food may be more expensive
- Foods may not be available all year
- Factors affecting food choice
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