Ready To Eat Food
... Except consumer goods and a small corner of fresh fruits and vegetables, the canned food is dominant and most of them come in the form of ready-to-eat. Ready-to-eat foods can be classified by various categories, for example, container, degree of cooking, keeping temperature and group of consumer. ... Homemade foods such as pizza, pancake, fried rice, and spaghetti now can be obtained as a frozen food in every supermarket. Why those foods have to be ready-to-eat is the question. ... It is still a puzzle why people don’t want to eat fresh fruit and vegetable by season and some have to be imported just to satisfy the taste of the consumers. In the same manner, why people need to consume ready-to-eat food is the question. ... Buying ready-to-eat foods might be cheaper than buying all ingredients and cooking at home. People who don’t like ready-to-eat foods might buy some because of advertisement. In some situations, when people are away from home or living in the country where familiar foods are not available, then ready-to-eat foods are handy. Do they know what they eat? ... What is lost from food processing are essential minerals and vitamins. Because foods are necessary not only for life maintenance but also social participation, then, food consumption must certainly affect both physical and mental health.