technological factors affecting food choice
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- Created on: 05-05-17 11:17
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- technological factors affecting food choice
- fridges and freezers
- with almost everyone in the uk having a fridge or freezer means more people only go shopping once a week as they can now store foods without them perishing
- development in food packaging
- with developed food packaging products are lasting longer. for example MAP packaging where oxygen is reduced and nitrogen and carbon dioxide is increased making perishable goods lasting longer.
- development in food production
- development in ways of producing foods such as fish farms has increased the availability of food making it more regularly available
- development in ICT
- ICT means that stores can offer an online way of purchasing food as well as allowing customers to compare prices from a range of food retailers
- improvements in transport
- developments in food transport such as chilled containers means that food no longer has to be seasonal and local as food can no be shipped in by plane and travel further for example new Zealand lamb
- fridges and freezers
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