food choices
Our Food Choices Exploring the influences that affect our food choices can help us make better decisions when choosing the right foods to eat. Eating healthy plays many roles in our ability to maintain good health and such factors include taste and enjoyment, culture and environment, social life and trends, cost and time, and just having the knowledge to eat nutritiously is important for our overall health (ch. 1).
Do you enjoy certain foods and eat them often, and avoid other foods that are not as enjoyable? We all need food to survive and our natural instinct is to eat, but the influences that affect our food choices, such as, taste to me is the most important. Enjoying the foods we eat are the main reasons we eat food. Research explains, “that this isn’t a surprise since there are more than 10,000 taste buds in our mouth (Blake, Munoz, Volpe, 4).” Our taste buds tell you when something is sweet, sour, or salty. Texture also affects our likelihood of enjoying certain foods. Eating a warm, flaky biscuit, to me, is a whole lot better than eating a tough biscuit. Just as I would rather chose to eat creamy soup instead of eating lumpy soup. A lot of consideration comes into play when picking foods to eat that we enjoy.
Cultural food preferences often influence food choices. A culture’s cuisine is mostly influenced by the food available in the environments in which we live. For instance, in Mexico, corn is a staple of Mexican cuisines because its more accessible to the people living there (5). If we lived in Mexico, we may regularly eat corn tortillas and tamales. In Asian countries, rice is a big part of their diet and the climate allows them to grow rice there locally so its readily available to them. Here, in the United States, due to the global food distribution networks we less likely have an issue with just eating locally available foods. The food that is more accessible to the people in specific environments are probably regularly consumed than
Do you enjoy certain foods and eat them often, and avoid other foods that are not as enjoyable? We all need food to survive and our natural instinct is to eat, but the influences that affect our food choices, such as, taste to me is the most important. Enjoying the foods we eat are the main reasons we eat food. Research explains, “that this isn’t a surprise since there are more than 10,000 taste buds in our mouth (Blake, Munoz, Volpe, 4).” Our taste buds tell you when something is sweet, sour, or salty. Texture also affects our likelihood of enjoying certain foods. Eating a warm, flaky biscuit, to me, is a whole lot better than eating a tough biscuit. Just as I would rather chose to eat creamy soup instead of eating lumpy soup. A lot of consideration comes into play when picking foods to eat that we enjoy.
Cultural food preferences often influence food choices. A culture’s cuisine is mostly influenced by the food available in the environments in which we live. For instance, in Mexico, corn is a staple of Mexican cuisines because its more accessible to the people living there (5). If we lived in Mexico, we may regularly eat corn tortillas and tamales. In Asian countries, rice is a big part of their diet and the climate allows them to grow rice there locally so its readily available to them. Here, in the United States, due to the global food distribution networks we less likely have an issue with just eating locally available foods. The food that is more accessible to the people in specific environments are probably regularly consumed than
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