Exam 1 NUFD 153 Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Amount of food related decisions per day Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 200
Influences on food choices Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Hunger & satiety
Look and taste
Health
Culture
Religious values
Psychological & social needs
Budgetary concerns
Sensory aspects and Palatability Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 1984-the average U.S.
household spent 16.8% of its annual post-tax income on food.
2011-Americans spent only 11.2%
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Efficiency and abundance of food production
What defines organic Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ Family and friends, packages and plates, names and numbers,
labels and lights, colors and candles, and other environmental factors.
Mindless eating catalyst Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓ 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 Ans: ✓ ✓ ✓
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.
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