NUFD 153 EXAM 1 2026/2027 | STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
& COMPREHENSIVE EXAM REVIEW
Amount of food related decisions per day - correct answer ✔✔200
Influences on food choices - correct answer ✔✔Hunger & satiety
Look and taste
Health
Culture
Religious values
Psychological & social needs
Budgetary concerns
Sensory aspects and Palatability - correct answer ✔✔Dependent on the sensory properties of the food
such as taste, smell, texture and appearance
Sensory aspects
Sight, odor, taste, touch, sound
Food cost Americans vs other countries - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. devotes less of its income to food
than any other country—half as much as households in France and one-fourth of those in India.
Amount of income Americans spends on household food - correct answer ✔✔1984-the average U.S.
household spent 16.8% of its annual post-tax income on food.
2011-Americans spent only 11.2%
Efficiency and abundance of food production
What defines organic - correct answer ✔✔Few synthetic pesticides & fertilizers
No genetic modification
No irradiation
No antibiotics/hormones
100% organic feed
Grazing stipulations
95-100% of organic ingredients may use the label
Mindless eating factors - correct answer ✔✔Family and friends, packages and plates, names and
numbers, labels and lights, colors and candles, and other environmental factors.
Mindless eating catalyst - correct answer ✔✔Restaurant Confidential
Restaurants are filled with booby-traps the cause us to overeat. These original findings show how
glasses, plates, and menu descriptions can unknowingly cause us to eat too much.
Grocery Shopping Psychology
Do grocery stores manipulate us, or are we our own worst enemy? These original findings show some of
the secrets as to why we overbuy and how to better control ourselves.
, Mindless eating smarter lunchrooms, marketing nutrition, new research methods - correct answer
✔✔Smarter Lunchrooms
Using behavioral economics we explore how small low-cost changes in the lunchroom can encourage
individuals to choose healthier foods
Marketing Nutrition
What makes food desirable or undesirable to consumers? Impact of labeling, packaging, and marketing
different products to best to promote healthy eating.
New Research Methods
To help people eat better, we need to understand the "whys" behind their behavior.
Impact how food looks - correct answer ✔✔The more appealing it looks the more you delicious it looks,
the more you are willing to pay to consume it. Impacts the way it is displayed, light, affecting color of
appearance, the way its prepared.
Can approach, how can children eat more healthy? - correct answer ✔✔Convenient, Attractive, and
Normative
Making healthy food easier to grab , displaying it nicely, and making healthy foods seem regular and
normal to eat.
What is food security - correct answer ✔✔The state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of
affordable, nutritious food.
How many people have prediabetes in 2015 - correct answer ✔✔33.9% of U.S. adults aged 18 years or
older (84.1 million people) had prediabetes in 2015, based
on their fasting glucose or A1C level.
What is Public Health - correct answer ✔✔The science of protecting and improving the health of families
communities, entire populations through healthy lifestyles and research.
Research includes: disease and injury prevention ,detection and control of infectious diseases.
Public Health Nutrition (PHN) - correct answer ✔✔Public Health Nutrition (PHN) is an area of
concentration emphasizing the application of food and nutrition knowledge, policy, and research to the
improvement of the health of populations.
Public Health Interventions - correct answer ✔✔Public health professionals try to prevent problems
from happening or recurring through educational programs, recommending policies,
administering services, conducting research
Public nutrition steps factors that affect health, programs, public policies - correct answer ✔✔Factors-
most critical social, behavioral, and food nutrition-related
Program(design,eval,- can improve the nutritional status of the population or subgroups in the
population
& COMPREHENSIVE EXAM REVIEW
Amount of food related decisions per day - correct answer ✔✔200
Influences on food choices - correct answer ✔✔Hunger & satiety
Look and taste
Health
Culture
Religious values
Psychological & social needs
Budgetary concerns
Sensory aspects and Palatability - correct answer ✔✔Dependent on the sensory properties of the food
such as taste, smell, texture and appearance
Sensory aspects
Sight, odor, taste, touch, sound
Food cost Americans vs other countries - correct answer ✔✔The U.S. devotes less of its income to food
than any other country—half as much as households in France and one-fourth of those in India.
Amount of income Americans spends on household food - correct answer ✔✔1984-the average U.S.
household spent 16.8% of its annual post-tax income on food.
2011-Americans spent only 11.2%
Efficiency and abundance of food production
What defines organic - correct answer ✔✔Few synthetic pesticides & fertilizers
No genetic modification
No irradiation
No antibiotics/hormones
100% organic feed
Grazing stipulations
95-100% of organic ingredients may use the label
Mindless eating factors - correct answer ✔✔Family and friends, packages and plates, names and
numbers, labels and lights, colors and candles, and other environmental factors.
Mindless eating catalyst - correct answer ✔✔Restaurant Confidential
Restaurants are filled with booby-traps the cause us to overeat. These original findings show how
glasses, plates, and menu descriptions can unknowingly cause us to eat too much.
Grocery Shopping Psychology
Do grocery stores manipulate us, or are we our own worst enemy? These original findings show some of
the secrets as to why we overbuy and how to better control ourselves.
, Mindless eating smarter lunchrooms, marketing nutrition, new research methods - correct answer
✔✔Smarter Lunchrooms
Using behavioral economics we explore how small low-cost changes in the lunchroom can encourage
individuals to choose healthier foods
Marketing Nutrition
What makes food desirable or undesirable to consumers? Impact of labeling, packaging, and marketing
different products to best to promote healthy eating.
New Research Methods
To help people eat better, we need to understand the "whys" behind their behavior.
Impact how food looks - correct answer ✔✔The more appealing it looks the more you delicious it looks,
the more you are willing to pay to consume it. Impacts the way it is displayed, light, affecting color of
appearance, the way its prepared.
Can approach, how can children eat more healthy? - correct answer ✔✔Convenient, Attractive, and
Normative
Making healthy food easier to grab , displaying it nicely, and making healthy foods seem regular and
normal to eat.
What is food security - correct answer ✔✔The state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of
affordable, nutritious food.
How many people have prediabetes in 2015 - correct answer ✔✔33.9% of U.S. adults aged 18 years or
older (84.1 million people) had prediabetes in 2015, based
on their fasting glucose or A1C level.
What is Public Health - correct answer ✔✔The science of protecting and improving the health of families
communities, entire populations through healthy lifestyles and research.
Research includes: disease and injury prevention ,detection and control of infectious diseases.
Public Health Nutrition (PHN) - correct answer ✔✔Public Health Nutrition (PHN) is an area of
concentration emphasizing the application of food and nutrition knowledge, policy, and research to the
improvement of the health of populations.
Public Health Interventions - correct answer ✔✔Public health professionals try to prevent problems
from happening or recurring through educational programs, recommending policies,
administering services, conducting research
Public nutrition steps factors that affect health, programs, public policies - correct answer ✔✔Factors-
most critical social, behavioral, and food nutrition-related
Program(design,eval,- can improve the nutritional status of the population or subgroups in the
population
