Factors Affecting Food Choices

1. Factors Affecting Food Choices Unit 4 HUM-FNW-3: Analyze factors that influence food choices and quality of diet.

2. Psychology is how your thoughts and feeling affect your behavior. • How you feel and think about food affects your choices. • If a food is associated with a happy or sad memory then that can determine if you like or dislike that food. Psychological Factors

3. Odors and events can affect your food choices as well. • Odor is a key part of flavor. • Odors trigger more memories than any other of the senses. • Odors can trigger good and bad memories and affect your like and dislikes of certain foods. • Food can appeal to the senses and still meet nutritional requirements. Psychological Factors CONT.

4. Have you ever been an emotional eater? • When Your Sad • Celebrating or Happy • Most people eat partly because they enjoy eating. • Underweight- may not eat because they are sad or lonely • Overweight – may eat to much because they find comfort in foods they like Emotional factors

5. The body needs food to provide the energy required to maintain vital function. • Ex: Studying when your hungry. You can’t focus until you receive nourishment. • Energy from food is needed for you to move your muscles. • Ex: Walking & Climbing • Substances from food helps to build and repair tissue in our body. Physical Factors

6. Food meets two basic physical needs • Eases Hunger 2. It can affect the overall state of your health EX: Eating processes foods instead of natural foods. Physical Factors CONT

7. Environment refers to the interrelated factors as air, water, soil, mineral resources, plants and animals that ultimately affect the survival of life on earth. • Agriculture use of knowledge and skills to tend soil, grow crops, and raise livestock. Agriculture and Environmental Factors

8. Sustainability – practices that are productive and profitable while still caring for the environment. • In the US regional agriculture doesn’t affect the availability like it does the cost. • The less miles it has to travel the less it cost us. • Severe weather like floods, droughts and damage of crops can also in affect the cost of foods. Agriculture and Environmental Factors

9. In regions of the world foods choices are limited due to their location • It might cost to much have foods that are not in the region transported to the area. • The people may be limited to only foods and livestock grown in that area due to lack of resources (money, economic development). Agriculture and Environmental Factors

10. Basic economic concept is supply and demand. • Consumers are willing to pay for a product and producers will provide it. • In some countries people may not have enough food to feed themselves but have rare commodity items (coffee, sugar & cacoa bean)and so the land is used to grow these items instead of needed food for the area. The money then goes to wealthy landowners. • The poor farmers who raise the crops don’t have enough money to get themselves out of poverty. Economic Factors

11. Low income families can’t afford to by good seed to grow needed nutritious foods. • Can’t afford fertilizers and pesticides that will increase the crops yield. • Don’t own modern farm equipment. • Limited education can affect the yield of their crops as well. • May be using outdated methods that reduce yields. Economic Factors CONT.

12. “Guide To Good Food”, 12th addition, VeldaLargen & Deborah Bence. Resources