Foods II 3.01 Key Terms

may be either raw agricultural commodities or processed commodities, provide that they are the forms that are sold or distributed for human consumption and ingested for nutrient properties

• Food Commodity

• Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDIR)

• Food Systems

• Food Deserts

areas with limited access to healthy food

• food miles

• Food Systems

• GMO

• food deserts

provides USDA Foods to income eligible households living on Indian reservations, and to American Indian households residing in approved areas near reservations or in Oklahoma

• Head Start

• Food distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDIR)

• Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs (Snap)

• National School lunch Program

a mile over which a food item is transported from producer to consumer, as a unit of measurement of the fuel used to do this

• food security

• food miles

• food deserts

• food communtiy

Consistent access to enough safe, nutritious food for an active, healthy life, without resorting to emergency food programs, scavenging, or stealing

• Food Security

• Food deserts

• GMo

• Food Systems

a complex and interconnected processes involved in keeping people fed

• GMo

• Food Systems

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• Food Miles

genetically modified organisms refer specifically to foods where the DNA has been modified by technology

• Food miles

• Local Foods

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• GMOs

     gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, especially, carbon dioxide and methane

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• GMO

• Foods Systems

• Food miles

a federally funded, comprehensive preschool program designed to meet emotional, social, health, nutritional and psychological needs of three- and four-year olds and their families

• Head Start

• Local foods

• Food Marketing

• National School Lunch Programs

food that is grown and transported less than 400 miles, or within the same state

• Local Foods

• Food miles

• Food security

• Food systems