FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Influences: Factors that can contribute to an individual’s food choice, which are both individual and environmental. Personal factors: Personal characteristics that influence choices, such as taste preference, knowledge, hunger level, income, and special diet requirements.

Detailed explanation-2: -In humans, a number of psychological characteristics predict the tendency to choose such foods when stressed, such as restrained or emotional eating, neuroticism, depression and premenstrual dysphoria, all of which could indicate neurophysiological sensitivity to reinforcing effects of such foods.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste. Economic determinants such as cost, income, availability.

Detailed explanation-4: -influences that exist within the individual such as physiological, psychological and situational or social.

Detailed explanation-5: -Three Main Categories of Factors Influencing Food Choices: Food-Related Features, Individual Differences, and Society-Related Features.