NUFD 153 EXAM I STUDY GUIDE
Amount of food related decisions per day - Answers - 200
Influences on food choices - Answers - Hunger & satiety
Look and taste
Health
Culture
Religious values
Psychological & social needs
Budgetary concerns
Sensory aspects and Palatability - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - Family and friends, packages and plates, names
and numbers, labels and lights, colors and candles, and other environmental factors.
Mindless eating catalyst - Answers - 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 -
Answers - 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 - Answers - 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? - Answers - 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 - Answers - The state of having reliable access to a sufficient
quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
How many people have prediabetes in 2015 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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) - Answers - 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 - Answers - Public health professionals try to prevent
problems from happening or recurring through educational programs, recommending
policies,
Amount of food related decisions per day - Answers - 200
Influences on food choices - Answers - Hunger & satiety
Look and taste
Health
Culture
Religious values
Psychological & social needs
Budgetary concerns
Sensory aspects and Palatability - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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 - Answers - Family and friends, packages and plates, names
and numbers, labels and lights, colors and candles, and other environmental factors.
Mindless eating catalyst - Answers - 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 -
Answers - 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 - Answers - 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? - Answers - 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 - Answers - The state of having reliable access to a sufficient
quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
How many people have prediabetes in 2015 - Answers - 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 - Answers - 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) - Answers - 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 - Answers - Public health professionals try to prevent
problems from happening or recurring through educational programs, recommending
policies,
