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Contemporary Food Issues Flashcards

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Advertising/promotional techniques?

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Tv advertising 
Celeb endorsement 
Free samples 
Free trials 
Social media advertising 
Free toy
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Advantages and disadvantage of glass packaging?

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Advantages:
Recyclable 
Clear so product can be seen 
Keeps fresher longer 
Look fancier 
Disadvantages:
Heavy to carry home 
Fragile and broken easy 
Some can’t be resealed 
Expensive
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Advantages/disadvantage of paper/cardboard packaging?

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Advantages:
Light to carry
Cheap
Can be printed on easily

Disadvantages:
Wont protect from moisture
When wet goes soggy
Crushes/tears easily

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Advantages/disadvantage of metal/aluminium?

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Advantages: 
Strong 
Good barrier for moisture and gas
Keeps food fresh for ages 
Recyclable

Disadvantages:
Heavy to carry
Bashed easily
Expensive

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Factors that affect food choice?

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Budget 
Lifestyle 
World wide cuisine 
Nutrition and preparation skills/knowledge 
Work patterns 
Advertising 
Technology 
Health issues 
Likes and dislikes
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Advantages/disadvantages of plastic?

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Advantages:
Light weight but strong 
Water proof 
Made into lots of different shapes 
Doesn’t react with food
Microwave safe

Disadvantages:
Has to be sorted to be recycled
Not all is recyclable
Not all is biodegradable

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Advantages/disadvantages of packaging?

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Advantages:

  • Packaging is good for consumer as can keep food fresher for longer preventing food waste
  • is bright and colourful encouraging customers to buy it increasing variety in diet
  • packaging contains data which lets them know when it goes off preventing food poising

Disadvantages:

  • Some don’t clean packaging and so can’t be recycled bad for environment as ends up in landfill
  • animals may get stuck/injured/eat packaging and become harmed
  • packing made using fossil fuels which is contributing to global warming
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What does food packing need?

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IMP
Information
Marketing
Protection

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Statutory meaning?

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Required by law

Name of product 
Ingredients 
Date marking 
Contact details 
Weight/volume 
Place of origins 
Storage instructions 
Instructions for cooking
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Advantages/disadvantages of chilled and cool-chilled foods?

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Advantages:
Cheaper than buying fresh
Faster to prepare and eat
Good for those who can’t cook 
Easier to prepare

Disadvantages:
Expensive for large amounts
Unhealthy contain lots of additives
Use a lot of packaging

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Advantages/disadvantages of

ultra-heated treated (UTH) products?

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Advantages:
Cheaper
Last longer
Last for ages (food waste reduced)

Disadvantages:
Don’t taste as good
Once opened have to be treated as fresh

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Advantages/disadvantages of Modified Atmospheric Packaging(MAP)?

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Advantages:
Don’t have to shop as often 
Shelf life improved
Can be seen through packaging
Better quality foods have to be used 
Disadvantages: 
Lot of packing used 
Not as fresh/ loose nutrition 
Some bacteria may still grow
Correct storage instructions to be followed
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Advantages/disadvantages of sweeteners/ sugar substitutes?

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Sorbitol
Aspartane
Saccharin

Advantages:
Reduce calorie intake
Reduce risk of tooth decay and obesity

Disadvantages:

  • Unpleasant aftertaste/don’t taste the same
  • Some people scared about long term health effects as they are unknown
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Advantages/disadvantages of alternative proteins?

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Advantages:

  • Low in fat and saturated fat
  • Good source of protein for vegetarians

Disadvantages:

  • Some products don’t contain vitamin B12
  • Some not suitable for vegans as they contain egg white
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Advantages/disadvantages of functions foods?

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Advantages:

  • some functional foods such as cereal and bread are inexpensive ways to improve nutritional intake
  • pro and pre biotics can improve gut health, keeping immune system healthy
  • functional foods such as spreading fats that contain plant sterols, can reduce cholesterol reducing risk of heart disease

Disadvantages:
To have any improvements on health have to be eaten in large quantities
-functional foods can be more expensive which maybe put consumers on a limited budget off

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What are antioxidants?

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Increases shelf life by protecting against deterioration caused by air exposure

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What are colourings?

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Cheap way to replace colour lost during processing

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What are flavourings?

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Cheap way to improve smell or taste of product

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What are emulsifiers and stabilisers?

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prevent mixtures from separating

e.g in margerines and salad cream

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What are Preservatives?

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They make sure something lasts longer enhancing/increasing shelf life

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What are sweeteners?

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Used in sugar free or low sugar foods instead of sugar

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Advantages/disadvantages of food additives?

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advantages:
-Give longer shelf life 
Improves smell and taste of food
Health Benefits, low sugar and fat
Low sugar good for diabetes

Disadvantages:
Some eg colourings cause hyperactivity in in children
-don’t know long term effects

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Advantages/disadvantages of factory farming?

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Advantages:
-Foods are cheaper to produce and so more easily affordable by those on budget
Consumers are mostly unaware of the conditions therefor buy factory farmed foods as they know no difference

Disadvantages:

  • Conditions animals are kept in is horrible and are treated cruelly
  • possibly animal diseases spreading and passing into humans
  • use of antibiotics and growth hormones may find their way into human food chain
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Advantages/disadvantages of online shopping?

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Advantages 
Good for busy people
Don’t need to leave house
Create standing order/wish list/ save favs 
Less likely to impulse buy
Disadvantages 
May not have internet 
May come damaged 
May have errors/replacements/substitutes
Can’t pick use by date
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Advantages/disadvantages of fair trade

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Advantages:

  • Better working conditions for workers
  • better wages for workers
  • less chemicals used
  • better for environment

Disadvantages:

  • environmentally aware consumers may be concerned about food mileages as the know where product is from
  • limited stock available
  • can be more expensive
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Advantages/disadvantages of genetic modification?

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Advantages:

  • nutrition value may be improved which may improve health/meet health needs
  • they are better preserved which prevents food waste
  • they are better looking so are more appealing

Disadvantages:

  • don’t know long term health effects and don’t want to risk health
  • they might be vegetarian/vegan so against foods that contain animal genes
  • might have strict religious rules and so eating animal genes is against their religion
  • may be environmentally aware as may be concerned about impact on environment
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Advantages/disadvantages of food miles/buying locally?

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Advantages:

  • buying locally can reduce food miles and impact on environment
  • foods can be fresher more nutritious and taste is improved

Disadvantages

  • buying locally can be more expensive
  • no variety/less choice as somethings won’t be in season
  • food that isn’t local uses lots of fuel which produces carbon dioxide adding to global warming
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Advantages/disadvantages of organic foods?

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Advantages:
Might taste better 
Might contain more nutrients 
Free from chemicals and pesticides 
Better for environment

Disadvantages:
Might be more expensive
Food doesn’t look as good
Food doesn’t last as long

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How do Advertising Standards Authority protect consumer interests?

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  • monitor all media outlets to ensure food adverts are not misleading
  • take action against misleading/offensive adverts, sales promotions and direct advertising of food products
  • ensures food labelling is accurate e.g if something is labelled fair trade, organic, free range it is actually those things that they meet guidelines and laws
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How does Trading Standard protect consumers interest?

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  • will check factories, shops, pubs, markets for accurate weights/measures in food products and drinks
  • will check food labelling is accurate
  • will check adverts/description of products are correct/ what it says it is/ accurate
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How does Which? Protect consumers interests?

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  • offer information and advice to help consumers make more information choices
  • they test food products/appliances/food services etc find best and publish results which saves time searching for good product
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How does Citizens Advice Bureau protect consumers interests?

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Offer free confidential advice on what next steps should be if you have a problem eg complaint

  • a restaurant food hygiene, they would refer you to EHD
  • faulty freezer, cooker, fridge, etc may help get money back
  • misleading food adverts

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