Food processing

Sodium chloride, commonly known as salt, is one of the most widely used additives in food industries as a preservative due to its antimicrobial effect. Sodium also enhances the flavour and palatability of food by increasing saltiness, reducing bitterness, enhancing sweetness and other congruent flavours (Liem et al, 2011). However, ingesting too much sodium causes the body to retain more fluid in the blood vessels, which puts an extra burden on the heart and blood vessels causing hypertension. One

sufficient enough to provide the fresh and whole foods that our children need. There has recently been a revolution in the National School Lunch Program, set in place by Michelle Obama. However even with the strict new guidelines and new healthier food based programs children are still receiving highly processed foods that school districts are eligible to purchase at a reduced cost through commodities. What is a processed food? A processed food is a food that has more than one ingredient to it. Brittany

If asked, would you be able to explain in detail how the food you ate for dinner last night was made and what ingredients it contained? Furthermore, would you be able to identify the presence of corn in your meal? Unfortunately, the average American would not be able to. Food is one of the most basic and essential human needs, yet it is a topic that most of us know very little about. Tom Small believes that this should change. Small asserts that parents nowadays do not have time to cook healthy

because humanitarian aid can take the form of food, but also because unlike the question of animal rights humanitarian aid and world hunger are most often issues of what we should do as opposed to what we shouldn’t do. This discussion can take place in one of two empirical scenarios; we have lots of food and have the ability to distribute it; or we do not have lots of food and thus cannot distribute it. The latter is demonstrably not true; I have food in my kitchen right now that will probably go

The Dangers of Processed Foods When was the last time you came across “Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate” (Figure. 2) growing out of the ground? Today's society offers new options for meals everyday. From fondue to fast food, there are new options everywhere you go. To clear up any curiosity, sodium stearoyl lactylate is a chemical added to Twinkies to make its processed ingredients more tolerable to the human body. Companies like Hostess and Kellogg’s are scientifically manipulating the human body, tricking

market leader. The firms had already identified Kraft as the ideal target as they believed that the portfolio of the two brands were highly complementary. • Another reason was the more perceptible shift in consumer preferences away from processed foods and towards more organic style of living. The idea behind this merger is to bring together two iconic brands, improve their operating efficiencies and expand internationally.

processed food to prevent weakness and a lousy mood. One eats even though there is no aware feeling of hunger, and mood will not be altered by the fact that eating. There are reports of repeated behaviour such as walking towards bite and soda vending machines in the afternoon, while hunting for a processed bite roaming the kitchen restlessly, or eating ice cream at nighttime. The negative emotions described are psychological expressions of withdrawal which are "fixed" by have refined foods, just like

what foods were good or what foods were bad. I would just eat when I was hungry, however even though sometimes it would go beyond the stage of just being hungry at the time. Seeing my mother go grocery shopping, it never accord to me that she wrote down products that were needed, and even getting items that were not on the list. Being the child, I thought everything she bought was necessary and alright. Over the years, as I got older I was educated on what foods were unhealthy and the foods that

According to the USDA Economic Research Service, over 50% of today’s food dollars are being spent on “food away from home,” with total expenditures totaling around $1.5 trillion. Based on the size of the industry and the trend, we believe that there is room in the market for our new venture concept. The venture for this exercise is a high-end food shop specializing in house-prepared foods that are either completely ready to eat (take-out) or simply need to be heated in the customer’s home. This concept

Food pricing and marketing practices determine individual dietary choices. These dietary choices inversely correlate to income and obesity (French, 2003; Drewnowski, & Specter, 2004; Cawley, 2004). Extending the consequences of dietary choices one step further are an array of diseases, including diminished immunities, diabetes, heart disease and cancer resulting from poor choices. We can identify the problem but how can we effect a solution? Obesity among low socioeconomic populations is increasing