Food Waste
What is food waste?
The decrease of food in subsequent stages of the food supply chain intended for human consumption
What are the three components of Food Security?
Availability, Accessibility, Application
What food group does pasta and rice fall under?
Grain Products
What is the Norway city in which started tackling the Food Waste Issue?
Oslo
What is the Farm to Table process?
Farmer, food inspector, processor, transporter, distributor, advertiser, grocer, consumer, compost
In stores and supermarkets, large quantities of food are wasted because what reason?
They don’t look the way consumers want.
What does Availability represent? Provide a scenario of food being available.
Having sufficient quantities of food available to all people at all times.
According to Canada’s Food Guide kids your age should be getting how many servings of fruits and vegetables a day?
6-7 servings
What was the name of the supermarket, and what did they change their labels to reflect?
Best For
Labels on products were adapted. “Use by” was changed to “best before.”
What are the components a plant needs to grow healthy and strong?
Water, sunlight (nutrients), air
11 million people who experience hunger live in what type of countries?
Developed Countries like the United States and Canada
What does Accessibility represent? Provide a scenario of food being accessible.
Having physical and economic access to nutritious and culturally acceptable foods.
Why do adults ages 51 and older need less fruits and vegetables compared to an adult that is between the ages of 19-50, but requires more milk products?
Depends on how active the adult is. Bones become more brittle as we get older, and dairy products help to prevent things like osteoporosis.
How much food waste was Norway able to reduce by the year 2015?
12%, but they did not meet their initial 25%
What is the connection between healthy plants and healthy people?
They both need water, sunlight (nutrients) and air.
What is the amount of all the food produced is wasted?
Bonus: How much tons is that equal to?
⅓ of the total amount of food produced
1.3 billion tons
What are two supports or programs that provide food to support proper nutrition?
Food bank and the free and reduced lunch program
By eating the amount of servings you need you reduce your risk of getting these ailments:
type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, certain types of cancer and osteoporosis.
What was the bigger issue that triggered Oslo to take up the Food Waste issue, and why?
A country dedicated to tackling climate change was waking up to the fact that its food waste corresponded to emitting 978,000 tons of CO2. That is equivalent to about one-quarter of the emissions from Norway’s cars.
What are the 3 soil nutrients?
Phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium
To the nearest hundred million, how many people do not get enough food to eat?
815 million (actual)
800 million
What does it mean to be food secure?
“food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active and healthy life”
What should we be looking at prior to eating any type of food?
The food label
What are the three percentage goals that Norway’s government is urging businesses and consumers to reduce their food waste by? (2020, 2025, 2030)
The government is insisting that businesses and consumers reduce their waste by 15 percent by 2020 compared with 2015 levels. They must secure a 30 percent reduction by 2025 to achieve the 50 percent goal by 2030.
What is the benefit of eating foods that went through the farm to table process?