Food Patterns
What is a food pattern?
Reliable sample of traits, acts, tendencies, or other observable characteristics related to foods that is eaten by a group people. Repeated group characteristic.
What is a food custom?
All the uses, practices, or conventions that regulate food habits among a group of people
What is a food habit?
Are the ways people, as individuals, eat and cook foods on a regular basis.
A student eats an apple every day during their afternoon break.
food habit
Eating turkey with family during Thanksgiving celebrations.
A holiday food tradition.
True or False. Slurping is considered an appropriate table manner?
True! But only for some cultures! Specifically in Asian countries
What is a food habit that may be present when you are at the movies?
Eating popcorn
A family gathers every Sunday to prepare and enjoy a large meal together.
Food pattern
A family makes the same homemade pasta every Christmas because their grandparents did too.
A food tradition passed down through generations.
At some celebrations, a host serves the eldest guests first as a sign of respect.
Showing respect for elders.
This traditional UK habit involves taking a break around 4:00 PM for a hot brewed beverage usually served with small sandwiches or pastries.
Afternoon tea
A group mainly eats rice with every meal
Food pattern
Preparing traditional dishes after moving to a new country helps preserve this part of a person's identity.
Cultural identity
In traditional Middle Eastern and Indian dining etiquette, you should never pass dishes or consume food using this specific hand, which is historically associated with personal hygiene.
Left hand
What is a common food habit that most people go through every morning?
Drinking coffee
A group of people from the same country find it odd to mix cheese and seafood
food custom or pattern
A family changes ingredients in a traditional recipe to suit what is available locally but continues making it for celebrations.
Cultural food adaptations
At an unfamiliar family's dinner table, you observe their practices, ask respectful questions, and follow their guidance. What should you do?
Follow those practices as a sign of respect
A student wants to eat healthier but has limited money and few grocery stores nearby. These barriers affect their ability to access nutritious food.
Food insecurity.
A teenager moves to a new country and begins eating the same foods as their classmates at school. What is this an example of?
Adopting a food custom, that may overtime become a pattern