Year 7 - Cooking and nutrition
Factors affecting food choice
Informed food choices
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Unit Summary
This unit develops pupils' knowledge of food choice, and how occasion and location can have an influence. Food skills and nutrition understanding are further developed through practical work, and the use of components are explored.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to identify and explain the different factors that affect food choice.
Key Notes
- There are a range of factors affecting food choice, including preference, religion, health, location, culture and money.
- Food choice depends on many personal and lifestyle factors, such as body image and role models, as well advertising.
- The eating occasion and location, as well as who we eat with, can change our food choices.
- Food labels can be used to make informed food choices, such as nutrition and allergy labelling.
- When planning to cook, the time available, cost of ingredients, and food skill experience should be considered.
Vocabulary To Learn
- factors: a fact or influence that affects what food people decide to buy, cook and/or eat
- food choice: what food people decide to buy, cook and/or eat
- informed: to make a decision based on having knowledge of a subject
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- We only make conscious food choices about what food we buy, cook and eat, based on a range of factors.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
There are a range of factors affecting food choice, including preference, religion, health, location, culture and money. Food choice depends on many personal and lifestyle factors, such as body image and role models, as well advertising.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'factors'
a fact or influence that affects what food people decide to buy, cook and/or eat.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: We only make conscious food choices about what food we buy, cook and eat, based on a range of factors. Correction: We make conscious and unconscious food choices about the food we buy, cook and eat.
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