Foods I Objective 1.01

Eating pizza with friends after a football game is most likely an example of which food choices factors?

• Comfort and family ties

• social ties and entertainment

• adventure and entertainment

• nutrition and wellness

Eating pasta the night before a race is most likely an example of which food choice factors?

• adventure and wellness

• adventure and wellness

• comfort and entertainment

• nutrition and wellness

Jason, a 25-year old young professional, relies heavily on high-sodium and high-fat fast food and frozen meals because he never learned to cook. Which individual influence on food choices does this represent?

• family schedules

• knowledge and skills

• peer group

• stages of life

external factors such as spring flooding and colder-than-normal winters are:

• economic influences on food availability and choices

• environmental influences on food availability and choices

• media influences on food availability and choices

• technological influences on food availability and choices

Which is an example of an external influence affecting food choices?

• availability of canned foods

• increased income and food budgets

• increases in one's high blood pressure

• number of employed parents

Fourth of July, Ramadan, Easter, and Christmas are examples of which individual influences on food choices?

• personal beliefs

• personal tastes

• religious and cultural

• situation factors

Physiological influences on food choices include gender, age, wellness and:

• peer group

• personal likes and dislikes

• emotions and feeling

• activity levels

Cutting food costs in half because children are leaving for college is an example of which type of influences on food?

• cultural influences

• physiological influences

• psychological influences

• situation influences

A downtown Charlotte neighborhood is planning to grow a vegetable garden in a vacant city lot. The lot will provide low-cost, healthy food to nearby residents. This is most likely an illustration of what two types of external influences on food choices?

• Economic and technological

• Environmental and economic

• Media and environmental

• Technological and media

Which is an example of an external influence affecting food choices?

• Attitude toward food

• Health diagnosis

• Religious dietary restrictions

• Vitamin fortification