Food Choice And Testing Flashcards
Influence on Food Choice: Social
Impact of friends + family, cooking facilities, celebration + storage (canned, dried + frozen).
Influence on Food Choice: Availability
Shops, access to shops, environmental impact e.g drought + supply.
Influence on Food Choice: Personal
Likes/dislikes, enjoyments, senses, lifestyle (work, time + money), activities (sporty person needs more carbohydrates) + time of day.
Influence on Food Choice: Marketing
Adverts, promotions + BOGOF (buy one get one free).
Influence on Food Choice: Economic
Cost of food, money available, income + money saving.
Influence on Food Choice: Medical
Diabetes, high cholesterol, HBP (high blood pressure), obesity + anaemia.
Influence on Food Choice: Food Labelling
Image, ingredient, nutrition + brand.
Influence on Food Choice: Religion
Hindu, Muslim + Christianity.
Influence on Food Choice: Consumer Information
Current trends, social media + food scares.
Influence on Food Choice: Ethic and Morals
Vegetarianism/Vegan, animal welfare, organic, local produce/British, air miles + seasonal.
Ways to promote a new food product
Adverts, free gifts, supermarket + shop displays, TV chefs, special offers/money off, eye catching, attractive packaging, competitions + family size portions/packages.
Adverts
Must be: legal, honest + truthful + monitored by OFT (Office of Fair Trading).
Food Adverts
Must have strict regulations about what it can show + when it can be shown.
Food Labelling Regulations, 1996
Name of food, list of ingredients (in descending order of weight; unless nothing is added), quantity of certain ingredients or categories of ingredients, durability indication, storage conditions/conditions of use, business name + address/registered office of either or both manufacturer or packer or seller established within European Community, place of origin/provenance of food + instructions for use.
Durability Indicators: Best Before
Food should retain its optimal condition + relates to quality of food e.g taste, food past it is safe to eat, but may not be best quality e.g biscuits, pasta + herbs/spices.
Durability Indicators: Use By
For highly perishable foods, after very short period of time it could present fish from food poisoning + relates to safety of food, foods can’t sold after that date + shouldn’t be used after.
Culture
Way of life, customs, habits, patterns of behaviour that are seen to be norm.
Socialisation
It’s process of passing on culturally valued behaviours from one generation to next.
Buddhism
Most are vegetarian.
Hinduism
They don’t eat cows as they’re sacred, they encourage vegetarianism + dairy enhances purity.
Islam
Muslim, meat + poultry must be Halal, unlawful Haram food: pork, gelatine, alcohol + caffeine, fast on 9th month, Ramadan, during daylight hours, then they feast at Eid-ul-Fitr.
Halal
Animals must be alive, clean cut to throat + blood drained.
Judaism
Kosher, meat must be specifically slaughtered, soaked + then treated with kosher salt, they only eat fish with scales + fins, animals that chew cud + cloven hooves, unclean - strictly forbidden is pork + shellfish, dairy + meat must not be prepared/eaten together, no work on Saturday + they fast from dusk until dusk on Yam Kippur.
Kosher
Clean.