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Food Technology
What affects our food choices?
- cultural preference
- cost
- availability
- regional variation
- personal preferences
- lifestyle
- moral benefits
- storage and cooking facilities
- religious beliefs
- health
- peer pressure
- recent food scares
- food trends
Why is evaluation important?
- to ensure the product meets the design and product specification
- to make sure the product will sell
- to keep the cost and waste to a minimum
- allows checks for improvement to be made to the product or equipment used to make the product and the production system
- to ensure that the product appeals to the user group
- to identify if a product can be developed further into a range
Identifying the gap
- reading newspapers and magazines
- looking at what competitors are producing
- looking at recipe books
- looking at what products already exist in their own range and thinking how a range could be developed
- consulting government research e.g. the 'five a day' campaign
- carrying out supermarket surveys
- carrying out interviews and questionnaires
- looking at trends in media, e.g. what is the current trend amongst TV chefs
Examples of equipment used to control
- Temperature: thermometer temperature probe
- Shape: cutters moulds tins
- Weight: weighing scales measuringspoon measuring jugs measuring cups
Groups who have special diets
- vegans
- diabetics
- coeliacs
- religious groups
- food allergies
- overweight or obese
- babies
- children
- lacto vegetarians
Standard Components
- cake mixes
- dried sauces
- bottled sauces
- pie fillings
- pastry cases
- cake decorations
- frozen pastry
- pizza bases
Heat Application
- boiling, blanching and simmering
- baking
- steaming
- roasting
- frying
- microwave cooking
- grilling
CAM is used in food industry for...
- weighing and measuring
- mixing
- slicing/dicing
- shaping
- rolling
- cutting
- extruding
- depositing
- enrobing
- cooking
- decorating
- chilling
- freezing
- storing
Product Specification
- product sensory specifications
- customer instructions
- list of ingredients
- recipe
- methods of making
- flowchart
- HACCP and safety checks
- shelf life details
- microbiological standards
- labelling information
- packaging specification
- finished product weights
Environmental Health Officers
- work for local authority
- enforce the food safety act
- responsible for public health issues such as hygiene
- investigate cases of microbial contamination in foods
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- Mind Map on Food Technology, created by Sophiet on 28/04/2016.
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