Title: Describe factors affecting a person’s food preferences.
Course: Food Science and Dietetics (19254) > Section: Exploring Diet and Nutrition Fundamentals

Description should include

- lifestyle preferences
- geographic location (e.g., food availability, food access)
- religious preferences
- family customs
- food product marketing
- food fads and fad diets.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What factors influence a person’s food preferences?
- Why is it important to research an individual’s food preferences?
- Why is it important to research food fads and fad diets?

Communication

- What do we need to know in order to understand the relationship between healthy eating and individual food preferences?
- What communication skills are needed to encourage healthy food preferences?
- What ethnic and cultural values influence individual food preferences?

Leadership

- What strategies would bring about change in an individual’s food preferences?
- What actions promote healthy food preferences?

Management

- What resources are needed to promote healthy food preferences?
- What actions can individuals take to evaluate their food preferences?