HWS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Food Energy, Food Processing, Food Security
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To describe and analyse the food industry and its influence of food choices. To understand the influence of convenience on food choices. Describe and analyse the influence of media and marketing on food choices. Describe and apply the 4 p"s of marketing. Fitting in well with a person"s needs, activities and plans. The food industry is a complex, global collective of diverse businesses that together supply much of the food energy consumed by the world population. Only subsistence farmers, those who survive on what they grow, can be considered outside of the scope of the modern food industry. Overall convenient, down to no washing up" or cleaning up". Let"s try and collectively categories some convenience foods according to these headings: Group 2: processed culinary or food industry ingredients. Foods of convenience are provided by the global food industry (big food) There tend to be a small number of big players (chicken, pork, pasta, cereal)