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Chapter 2
Home Economics - 1st Year - @Home
Term | Definition |
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Factors affecting food choices | Family, Lifestyle, Cooking Skills, Nutritional knowledge, Culture, Religion, Money, Availability, Advertising and Marketing, Senses, Health |
Convenience foods | Foods that are commercially prepared, e.g frozen pizza |
Staple food | Staple food is a food that is eaten frequently in a country and makes up a large part of the diet |
Immigration | Is when people come to a new country to live there |
Rural | Country side |
Food manufacturers | Make the food |
Retailers | Sell the goods |
Celebrity endorsements | Where celebrities are paid to say that they use a particular product to influence us to buy it |
Five senses | Sight, Smell, Touch, Sound and Taste |
Food sustainability | Buying foods that do not harm the environment. Food sustainability means maintaining a healthy food supply for future generations |
Sustainability | Maintaining the world we live in for future generations of humans, plants and animals |
Ecological issues | Relate to how living things, especially humans, interact with and impact on their environment |
Food miles | The distance food travels before it can be purchased |
Organic food | Food that has been produced without the use of artificial fertilisers or pesticides |
Biodegradable | Packaging that breaks down naturally and harmlessly in the environment |
Ethical issues | Involves us making decisions about what we believe to be right or wrong |
Fairtrade | It means that farmers in developing countries have been paid a fair price for their produces and that workers have a good working conditions |
Vegan | A person that does not eat any animal products |
Lacto-vegetarion | A person that does not eat any meat, fish or poultry but will eat animal products |
Functions of food | Growth and Repair, Heat and Energy, Protections from disease, Curbs hunger, Enjoyment (physical), Share with family and friends, Social events (social) |