Factors Affecting Food Choice Flashcards
Name 3 factors that affect someone’s food choice
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
How are people educated about food, nutrition and healthy eating?
At home, in school, in the community
How does Physical Activity Level (PAL) affect food choice?
more active = more energy needed
less active = less energy needed
What 5 pieces of information are given on food labels?
- nutrition
- Ingredients
- Food allergies
- Energy value
- Manufactures’ claims about their products
Define Food Miles
The mileage a food product has covered before it reaches our plates
How can food miles be reduced?
Buy locally sourced foods (e.g. nationally or communally)
Define Seasonality
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
Give an example of a food that is only available at certain times of year
- Strawberries
- Fish (breeding patterns)
- Lamb
How does the growing, harvesting, rearing and slaughtering affect food choice?
- Growing/Harvesting = (non)organically, space for individual products
- Rearing/Slaughtering = free-range, humane slaughtering
True of False: importing foods from other countries doesn’t impact food choice at all?
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
Who gets the most and who gets the least in the ‘Banana Split’?
- Worker/ Farmer gets the least
- Retailer gets the most
Why might someone’s food choice change due to celebrations and traditions?
Special occasions call for special foods to be consumed that wouldn’t normally be eaten on a day-to-day basis.
Give 3 examples of special occasions whereby food choice is affected
Any 3 from:
- Weddings
- Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Funerals
- Bar Mitzvahs
- Calendar Events (e.g. Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Bonfire Night)
Why might sharing food with other people affect food choice?
- Someone might buy a ‘treat’ for their workplace
- Entertaining people at home
- Going out
Give 3 examples of personal preferences affecting food choice
- Likes and dislikes
- Following a particular diet (e.g. Vegetarianism)
- Food aversions (association) with something bad
How can young children be encouraged to eat a variety of foods?
Parents can set good eating habits that the children maintain and develop as they grow up.
What foods can Buddhists not eat?
- Meat
- (Some avoid dairy products)
- Consumption of alcohol
What special occasions linked to food to Buddhists have?
They fast in the afternoon
True or False: Christians have many strict beliefs into foods they cannot eat?
False: There are no restrictions
What are the 4 main Christian special occasions linked to food?
- Shrove Tuesday
- Lent
- Good Friday
- Easter
- Christmas
True or False: Many Hindus are vegetarians?
True.
Give 3 examples of foods not eaten by Hindus
- Beef (the cow is seen as sacred)
- Onions and Garlic are thought to affect the search for spiritual enlightenment
- This also applies to alcohol
What special Hindu occasions affect food choices?
- Holi
- Diwali
What 2 products cannot be consumed by Muslims?
- Pork & pork products (e.g. gelatine)
- Alcohol
True of False: Ramadan involves fasting from dawn to dusk in Islam religion?
True
What is the name of the celebration at the end of Ramadan?
Eid-ul-Fitr
Which religion cannot eat pork, shellfish and believes that dairy products and meat must not be prepared together?
Judaism
What are the two main occasions in the Jewish calendar that affect food choice?
- Yom Kippur (the day of Atonement)
- Passover and Rosh Hashanah
Which belief states that Pork and fish longer than 30cm must not be eaten?
Rastafarianism
What Rastafarian celebration affects food choice?
Ethopian Christmas (7 January)
Define a food intolerance
A sensitivity to a particular food that causes them to experience uncomfortable symptoms that affect everyday activities
What is Lactose intolerance?
- 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.
What is Coeliac disease?
- 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
Define a food allergy
A damaging immune response by the body to a food which it has become hypersensitive to
Give 3 examples of some of the most common food allergens
Any 3 from:
- eggs
- milk
- fish, crustaceans, molluscs
- nuts
- seeds
- soya
- celery/celeriac
- mustard
What is the name of the serious (sometimes fatal) allergic reaction and how is it treated?
- Anaphylaxis (Anaphylactic shock)
- (has to be treated immediately) Epi-pen (injection of adrenaline)
What information is mandatory on food labels?
Hint: there are 9
- 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)
What does the ‘e’ mean after the weight of a product? (e.g a product is ‘400g e’)
It tells the consumer that the weight or volume of the product is an average amount.
