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Showing 1 to 20 of 11638 for “"Food"”.
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Food Security in Urban New Zealand: Food Waste, Food Utopias, and Food Values
… children in New Zealand reported being fully food secure (NZ Ministry of Health 2019). Even more frustrating is that supermarkets and restaurants in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand are constantly stocked with 150-200% of surplus food over what it would take to nutritionally …
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Food Consumption, Food Cash Dependency, and Food Policy in Indonesia
… were also very dependent on cash for acquiring food. Most agricultural economists concerned with less developed countries have long assumed that rural households produced most of the food they consumed. This study found that among the 1183 rural households surveyed in Eastern Java, the lowest …
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Improving Food Allergen Management in Small Food Service Businesses serving Loose Food
Food allergens, a concern for an increasing number of people, are common food ingredients found in most kitchens. For the majority of the population these ingredients are harmless yet for about 2% of the global adult population, these ingredients pose a health risk and at times could also be life …
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NUTRITIONAL QUALITY AND FOOD SAFETY OF FOOD SOURCES AND FOOD PROCESSING BY-PRODUCTS
In the area of functional foods and dietary supplements, peptides that confer health benefits, also called bioactive peptides, are increasingly recognized as useful tools for improving health and preventing chronic diseases (Udenigwe and Aluko 2012). In fact, food proteins do not only supply …
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Analysis of food safety and food handling knowledge among street food vendors in selected local food markets in Windhoek
Contaminated food leads to foodborne disease outbreaks (FDO) that cause millions of deaths among people every year. In Namibia, many low and middle-income consumers use street-vended foods (SVF) with compromised quality of raw materials, degraded handling and storage conditions that do not meet …
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The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics
… New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using qualitative methods, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviewing, issues of food …
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Decomposition of Food Price Changes: Food-at-Home and Food-Away-From-Home Prices
Significant increases and fluctuations in the food price inflation of food-away- from-home (FAFH) and food-at-home (FAH) have been observed in the last couple of years. Many demand- and supply- driven factors may be responsible for such phenomena. On top of that, the total food price is a weighted …
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Assessment of food safety in food service establishments
Las enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos se han convertido en un problema de salud pública debido al aumento de reporte de brotes alrededor del mundo en las últimas décadas. La organización mundial de la salud ha establecido una incidencia global en países industrializados del 30% de la …
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Measuring Food Volume and Nutritional Values from Food Images
… of the patient’s diet. Therefore, measuring food intake each day is considered an important step in the success of a healthy diet. Measuring daily food consumption for obese patients is one of the challenges in obesity management studies. Countless recent studies have suggested that using …
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An Examination of Food Handling Practices at Food Pantries
The latest edition of the Food and Drug Administration's Model Food Code provides the definition of an acceptable donated food item but does not specify any safe storage or handling standards for these items. Virginia has not adopted this edition, but its own food handling regulations provide …
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Food as helper, food as healer: How Cree Elders incorporate food into their helping and healing practices and the implications for Indigenous food sovereignty
… and prejudices have deeply affected Indigenous food systems and thus Indigenous bodies. For Cree peoples in Manitoba, these policies include the criminalization of practicing traditional medicines, residential schools and land dispossession in the name of development. However, despite the …
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Eating waste : a critical evaluation of surplus food redistribution as solution to food waste and food insecurity
… thesis critically explores relationships between food insecurity and food waste in the UK through the lens of surplus food redistribution (SFR). Ethnographic research compared two UK redistribution organisations’ models, framings, practices and political modalities. Additionally, international …
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Analysing food access to improve food security in South Africa.
This study focuses on the level of food access in South Africa in order to improve food security in the country. South Africa, having been affected by the pandemic, left a significant number of people suffering from hunger as they were unable to access food, due to reductions of income. This …
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Rethinking Food Deserts: the practice and politics of food access
Food deserts, low-income communities with low access to healthy, affordable foods, have received rapidly increasing attention in recent years from academic researchers, policy makers, and activists. Many studies have linked food deserts to increased rates of obesity and their related health …
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An evaluation of domestic food hygiene and food preparation practices
… was to evaluate the hygiene of domestic food preparation practices. The traditional survey approach used to study this behaviour has problems of interpretation and verification. In this study direct observation, supplemented with food temperature measurements was used to gather …
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The Cross Border Food Security of Vuntut Gwitchin Food Security
… challenges in accessing and securing traditional foods for household consumption. While commercial foods have become more readily available, the nutritional quality is far inferior to traditional wild foods. Maintaining access to reliable and nutritious food sources is a part of a larger social …
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Hot Food Takeaways around schools: Can fast food be healthier?
… population are overweight or obese. Calls for food environment interventions include recommendations for restriction or banning of new fast food retailers (FFRs). The Takeaway Toolkit was published by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and aimed to alter consumption of unhealthy …
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Essays on food assistance program participation and demand for food
<p>Household food demand and choices over food products are constantly evolving. Therefore better understanding of the relationship among household socioeconomic characteristics, expenditures, foods and nutrient choices of consumers and food prices is important to food producers, health …
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Food Security and Crises: Analyses of Disruptions in Food Systems
Food security remains a critically important issue, addressing one of the most fundamental human needs and characterized by a challenging cyclical pattern. Despite significant advances, each time stability seems within reach, new crises emerge to undermine progress. However, the efforts to enhance …
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