NSCI 3543
Diabetes within Native American population
2-4 times higher than normal pop
What food is Argentina best known for?
Beef
Aboriginal food of Australia is called?
Bush tucker
Majority of Americans of Filipino descent are what religion?
Catholic
Arepas is a common food in what country?
Central and South America
What food in South America is a pastry filled with meat?
Empanada
Many mainstream American worldviews such a family structure and view of food and health are close to what country?
England
Adaptive strategy used to process food in nonindustrial societies?
Foraging, horticulture, pastoralism
Israeli immigrants to the US most likely follow what religion?
Judaism
Kashrut is the dietary laws for what religion?
Judaism
Proper term for people living in the US from Mexico?
Latino
What country is associated with tortillas?
Mexico
What is a concern in African American people especially during pregnancy?
Pica- eating dirt
In japan, sushi may be topped with raw fish or squid called ____
Sashimi
Smorgasborg originiated
Sweden; means buffet or feast
What cuisine is one of the hottest in the world?
Thai
What is curry?
a blend of a number of seasoning originated in India
corporation
a chartered organization with limited liability, transferability of shares, legal personhood, and indefinite duration
locavore
a person who seeks to eat foods produced only within a specified local or regional area
technology treadmill
a process in which falling unit prices force farmers to adopt costly new technologies to garner higher yields to replace lost income; however, the technology also creates an over supple of products that pushes prices down even further
low context culture
actual words are more important than who is receiving the message, how the words are said, or the nonverbal actions that accompany them
Omnivores paradox
attraction to new foods; preference to familiar foods
What is the law of meat and milk according to Judaism?
cannot be eaten at the same time
food desert
communities that lack full-line supermarkets, forcing typically low-income residents to make do with fast food and convenience stores or travel long distances to access a supermarket
Diet in South America is mainly _____ based.
corn
The staple grain for Aztec, Mayan, and current inhabitants of Mexico and Central America?
corn
Common Cherokee food
deer, cornbread, grape dumplings
American paradox
even though foods from throughout the world are available and often affordable, there is a need for consistency and conservatism
Which of the following are true for processing food in industrial societies?
farming is becoming more corporate, there is more of a delocalized system, it relies on decreasing number of farmers
Dairy products are most likely to be consumed by Middle Easterners (Turkey) as what?
fermented products like yogurt
Major core source of protein in Scandinavian countries?
fish
What is clotted cream?
from Devonshire, slightly fermented thickened cream that is spread on scones and biscuits
In central Europe, vegetables are those that can be,,,
grown in cold temperatures and preserved by pickling, fermenting, or drying
True regarding the Mediterranean diet?
high in monosaturated fat
What is the preferred meat in the middle east?
lamb
food insecurity
limited access or lack of access to a nutritionally sound and culturally appropriate diet from reliable mainstream sources
murketing
marketing tactics that "blur the line between branding channels and everyday life"
What food is the most prohibited across cultures?
meat
slotting fees
money food manufacturers pay to retailers in order to have their products displayed on the most valuable shelf space
high context culture
most of the meaning of a message is found in the context, not in the words
functional foods
one that purports to provide health benefits beyond its normal nutritional properties, typically because of added nutrients or other beneficial ingredients
Two important food in Yoruba (africa)?
pounded yams and melon soup
In Africa, sign of respecting someone of authority is
prostrating in men and kneeling in women
domestic outsourcing
purchasing products or services in order to shift work done in the home to people and businesses outside
category management
retail system in which retailers and manufacturers collaborate to determine the array of foods within a given category, such as pasta sauce, with hopes of maximizing the profit of each unit of shelf space
A meal in south Asia is not considered complete without?
rice
What is considered a staple in the Native American diet?
squash, corn
branding
the creation and promotion of meaning-laden symbols that represent particular products with compelling values and ideas
role loss
the disappearance of an important social role, leading to insufficient food production
foodways
the patterns that establish "what we eat, as well as how and why and under what circumstances we eat"
hunger
the pervasive lack of food that causes immediate physiological discomfort
Eutrophication
the reduction of dissolved oxygen in water due to nutrient pollution that creates aquatic and marine dead zones
consumer sovereignty
the revered idea in capitalist culture that consumers should make their own free consumption choices based on their own unique tastes and wants, favoring the best and cheapest among competing selections
agrifood system
the set of vast, interlinked institutions and processes that transform sunlight, water, and soil into meaning-laden foods
feeding work
the sum of mental, emotional, and physical effort that goes into planning, provisioning, preparing and serving meals, as well as cleaning after them; includes knowing others' tastes and monitoring home food stores
Which food group is most extensively used in China?
vegetables
What makes Japanese different from china and other Asian foods?
visual appeal
nutrient pollution
when excessive nitrogen and phosphorous enter bodies of water, prompting the overgrowth of algae and aquatic plants
genetic pollution
when unwanted genetic material contaminates crops through uncontrollable pollination
invisible labor
work that is invisible to its beneficiaries, either because it is performed in their absence or is largely emotional and/ or mental