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Essay On Convenience Food

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Are convenience foods really convenient for our health?
II.) Guiding Question:
What are the benefits and downsides of convenience foods?
What are the common additives added to convenience foods?
What is the relationship between additives and people’s health?
How to have a healthy diet?
III.) Background:
The increasing availability of convenience foods has been a significant feature of modern life in many counties. It is true that convenience foods present an attractive option and the range for sale in the average supermarket is quite impressive. Also, it is possible to find even very sophisticated ready-prepared microwavable meals. Grazyna Adamczyk(2010) noted that most people are busy with their works and do not have enough time for …show more content…

V.) Learning Objectives/Skills:
- Oral Communication & Written Communication: We usually have face-to-face communications and utilize email to discuss this project. Also, we will talk more with the staffs in the local supermarket when we collect some common convenience foods. In addition, we summarize the information, related to convenience foods, which is found on the internet.
- Research: We make lists of the ingredients of some popular convenience foods in the supermarket and search for the information of each ingredient in library or on the Internet. Besides, based on the information, we will divide convenience foods into two categories: the healthy and the unhealthy.
- Collaboration: sometimes we have our own tasks individually and then we will work together. For example, one finds the functions of ingredients of convenience foods, the other finds the relationship between the ingredients and people’s health.
- Critical Thinking: Everything has both positive and negative sides, as a result, we consider both the advantages and disadvantages of convenience foods.
- Time management: We should manage our time properly to do our project because of tons of homework.
- Creating and delivering presentations: To show our project clearly, we need to have an excellent presentation. We should learn how to use presentation software such like power point.
- Quality management: As soon as

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