NU FS100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 24 pages long!)

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We consume food on a daily basis, so we make food choices every day about what foods to purchase and consume based on a variety of needs and wants. Factors that affect personal food choice include: price, availability, health, convenience. Factors that affect the conditions facing the producers and markets of food products include: Lifestyles: changes in the makeup of the population, attitudes on food safety, health, convenience. The food industry is divided into 4 major segments: production, manufacturing and processing, distribution, marketing. These 4 divisions are not clear-cut and often overlap one another, The food industry requires planning and synchronization in all its divisions to be successful. When the entire food system is analyzed, additional divisions are often included. Another way to divide the food industry is along major product lines e. g. cereals and bakery products: meats, fish and poultry, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, sugars and other sweets, fats and oils, nonalcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages.

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