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Factors Affecting Food Choice Flashcards

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Name 3 factors that affect someone’s food choice

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Any 3 from:

  • Availability/Seasonality
  • Health/Physical Activity Level
  • Nutrition
  • Culture/tradition
  • Ethics/Moral Beliefs/Religion
  • Food Preferences/Eating Habits
  • Cost
  • Medical Condition
  • Enjoyment/Celebration/Occasion
  • Time of Day/ Time Available
  • Lifestyle
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How are people educated about food, nutrition and healthy eating?

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At home, in school, in the community

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How does Physical Activity Level (PAL) affect food choice?

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more active = more energy needed

less active = less energy needed

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What 5 pieces of information are given on food labels?

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  • nutrition
  • Ingredients
  • Food allergies
  • Energy value
  • Manufactures’ claims about their products
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5
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Define Food Miles

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The mileage a food product has covered before it reaches our plates

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How can food miles be reduced?

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Buy locally sourced foods (e.g. nationally or communally)

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Define Seasonality

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The time of year a specific food can be easily grown/produced due to climates around the world. Seasonality can increase the cost and numbers of certain products

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Give an example of a food that is only available at certain times of year

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  • Strawberries
  • Fish (breeding patterns)
  • Lamb
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How does the growing, harvesting, rearing and slaughtering affect food choice?

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  • Growing/Harvesting = (non)organically, space for individual products
  • Rearing/Slaughtering = free-range, humane slaughtering
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True of False: importing foods from other countries doesn’t impact food choice at all?

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False:

  • Environmental and energy costs of transportation
  • Wider choice of available food from other countries
  • How well the farmer is treated by the food industry
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Who gets the most and who gets the least in the ‘Banana Split’?

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  • Worker/ Farmer gets the least

- Retailer gets the most

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Why might someone’s food choice change due to celebrations and traditions?

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Special occasions call for special foods to be consumed that wouldn’t normally be eaten on a day-to-day basis.

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Give 3 examples of special occasions whereby food choice is affected

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Any 3 from:

  • Weddings
  • Birthdays
  • Anniversaries
  • Funerals
  • Bar Mitzvahs
  • Calendar Events (e.g. Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Bonfire Night)
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Why might sharing food with other people affect food choice?

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  • Someone might buy a ‘treat’ for their workplace
  • Entertaining people at home
  • Going out
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Give 3 examples of personal preferences affecting food choice

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  • Likes and dislikes
  • Following a particular diet (e.g. Vegetarianism)
  • Food aversions (association) with something bad
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16
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How can young children be encouraged to eat a variety of foods?

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Parents can set good eating habits that the children maintain and develop as they grow up.

17
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What foods can Buddhists not eat?

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  • Meat
  • (Some avoid dairy products)
  • Consumption of alcohol
18
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What special occasions linked to food to Buddhists have?

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They fast in the afternoon

19
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True or False: Christians have many strict beliefs into foods they cannot eat?

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False: There are no restrictions

20
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What are the 4 main Christian special occasions linked to food?

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  • Shrove Tuesday
  • Lent
  • Good Friday
  • Easter
  • Christmas
21
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True or False: Many Hindus are vegetarians?

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True.

22
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Give 3 examples of foods not eaten by Hindus

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  • Beef (the cow is seen as sacred)
  • Onions and Garlic are thought to affect the search for spiritual enlightenment
  • This also applies to alcohol
23
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What special Hindu occasions affect food choices?

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  • Holi

- Diwali

24
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What 2 products cannot be consumed by Muslims?

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  • Pork & pork products (e.g. gelatine)

- Alcohol

25
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True of False: Ramadan involves fasting from dawn to dusk in Islam religion?

A

True

26
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What is the name of the celebration at the end of Ramadan?

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Eid-ul-Fitr

27
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Which religion cannot eat pork, shellfish and believes that dairy products and meat must not be prepared together?

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Judaism

28
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What are the two main occasions in the Jewish calendar that affect food choice?

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  • Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement)

- Passover and Rosh Hashanah

29
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Which belief states that Pork and fish longer than 30cm must not be eaten?

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Rastafarianism

30
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What Rastafarian celebration affects food choice?

A

Ethopian Christmas (7 January)

31
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Define a food intolerance

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A sensitivity to a particular food that causes them to experience uncomfortable symptoms that affect everyday activities

32
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What is Lactose intolerance?

A
  • Lactose is a disaccharide found in dairy
  • Most people can digest it easily
  • Lactose intolerance is when you can’t digest it and instead the large intestine bacteria break down which produces a large amount of gas.
33
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What is Coeliac disease?

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  • Intolerance to protein gluten
  • Auto-immune disease (body produces antibodies that attack own tissues)
  • Gluten damages villi in small intestine - making them short and unable to absorb nutrients
  • Person becomes malnourished
  • anaemia
  • fatigue
  • weight loss
  • diarrhoea
  • poor growth in children
  • immune system defects
34
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Define a food allergy

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A damaging immune response by the body to a food which it has become hypersensitive to

35
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Give 3 examples of some of the most common food allergens

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Any 3 from:

  • eggs
  • milk
  • fish, crustaceans, molluscs
  • nuts
  • seeds
  • soya
  • celery/celeriac
  • mustard
36
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What is the name of the serious (sometimes fatal) allergic reaction and how is it treated?

A
  • Anaphylaxis (Anaphylactic shock)

- (has to be treated immediately) Epi-pen (injection of adrenaline)

37
Q

What information is mandatory on food labels?

Hint: there are 9

A
  • Name of food product
  • Ingredients and their amount
  • Net weight/volume/quantity of product
  • Name/business name and address of business operator
  • Place of origin/provenance
  • Cooking/preparation instructions
  • ‘use-by date’/’best before date’
  • Storage conditions
  • Warnings (allergens & additives)
38
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What does the ‘e’ mean after the weight of a product? (e.g a product is ‘400g e’)

A

It tells the consumer that the weight or volume of the product is an average amount.

GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition (2 decks)

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