FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Locavores are people who try to choose locally grown or locally produced food that is in season. There are many definitions of “local food", but the concept is based primarily on distance.

Detailed explanation-2: -How far has your food travelled to get to your kitchen? That journey – the distance between where something is grown to where it’s eaten – is what we mean when we talk about ‘food miles’.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Local” food miles For example, a gallon of gasoline could transport 5 kg of meat over 60, 000 miles (97, 000 km) by road (40 tonner at 8 mpg) in bulk transport, or it could transport a single consumer only 30 or 40 miles (64 km) to buy that meat.

Detailed explanation-4: -What are Food Miles? Food miles are a way of attempting to measure how far food has travelled before it reaches the consumer. It is a good way of looking at the environmental impact of foods and their ingredients. It includes getting foods to you, but also getting waste foods away from you, and to the landfill!

Detailed explanation-5: -If you want to reduce your food miles, returning to this seasonal way of eating is a must. It’ll mean you’ll avoid eating food that has had to be shipped in from across the world, where that fruit or veg is actually in season.