Food Choices & Vocabulary
This is the physical need for food.
What is hunger?
Eating a traditional family meal during a holiday is an example of this influence.
What is culture/custom?
The general practice of growing crops and raising animals for food.
What is agriculture?
Protecting environmental, social, and economic conditions/resources for the future.
What is sustainability?
Which government agency oversees most meat and poultry safety?
What is the USDA?
This is the psychological desire to eat, even when your body may not physically need food.
What is appetite?
Your friends all order the same snack, so you order it too even though you wanted something else.
What is peer pressure/social influence?
Raising fish, shrimp, or other aquatic organisms for food.
What is aquaculture?
Produce is damaged during transportation before reaching the grocery store.
What is food loss?
Which agency regulates the safety and labeling of most foods other than meat and poultry?
What is the FDA?
This term means an aim that a person tries to reach.
What is a goal?
A student buys a sports drink after seeing a favorite athlete advertise it.
What is media influence?
Growing plants in nutrient-rich water instead of soil.
What is hydroponic farming?
A restaurant throws away untouched food at closing time.
What is food waste?
A freeze destroys much of the strawberry crop, but customers still want the same amount. What will most likely happen to the price?
The price will generally rise because supply decreased while demand remained high.
Before choosing among several food options, this six-step process helps you think about choices and possible outcomes.
What is the decision-making process?
This term describes a food practice that becomes extremely popular for a short period of time.
What is a fad?
A disease-resistant crop allows more food to survive until harvest. What could happen to food availability?
It could increase/improve food availability.
Put these food-system stages in order: Consumption, Production, Waste Management, Distribution, Processing.
Production → Processing → Distribution → Consumption → Waste Management.
Give two ways advertising or media can influence someone's food choices.
Examples include celebrity/influencer endorsements, attractive packaging, emotional messages, repeated advertising, special offers, or health/convenience claims.
Name three of the six steps in the decision-making process.
Any three: identify the problem/decision; consider alternatives; connect alternatives to goals; determine acceptable alternatives; choose an alternative; evaluate the decision.
Name the five parts of AAOCC, used to evaluate food and media information.
What are Authority, Accuracy, Objectivity, Currency, and Coverage?
Explain the difference between aquaculture and hydroponic farming.
Aquaculture raises aquatic plants or animals for food; hydroponics grows plants in nutrient-rich water without soil.
A cafeteria throws away large amounts of edible food every day. Give two realistic solutions that would support sustainability.
Answers may include smaller initial portions with seconds, share tables where allowed, improved forecasting, donating appropriate unopened foods, composting, tracking waste, better storage, or student education.
Scenario: Maya skipped breakfast and her stomach is growling. When she walks past a bakery, the smell of cookies suddenly makes her want cookies. Identify both concepts occurring.
Hunger is her physical need for food; appetite is her desire for the cookies triggered by their smell.